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equinox

C1 noun

equinox /ˈɛkwəˌnɑks/ nghĩa là điểm phân

Các nghĩa

  1. điểm phân

    One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.

    Live long, nor feel in head or chest / Our changeful equinoxes, / Till mellow Death, like some late guest, / Shall call thee from the boxes.

  2. điểm phân (ngày và đêm dài bằng nhau)

    The circumstance of a twenty-four hour time period having the day and night of equal length.

    also · figuratively

    [D]oe but ſee his vice, / Tis to his vertue, a iuſt equinox, / The one as long as th'other: […]

  3. điểm phân (giao điểm của hoàng đạo và xích đạo trời)

    One of the two points in space where the apparent path of the Sun intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth.

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