"equator" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth, dividing it into two halves. For example, "The equator passes through South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia."
Working out fuel consumption and time-and-distance calculations required mental arithmetic; for anatomy lessons we inspected road-kill antelope; for physics we watched water drain out of a bowl in opposite directions either side of the equator.
Instead of "hovering" two geostationary satellites over the equator due south of its American market like XM, Sirius chose to fly three satellites in an orbit that is 29,000 miles above the earth and inclined at an angle to the equator.
At the time, the technology for compressing packets of digital music and voice and transmitting them from orbiting satellites 23,000 miles above the equator to cheap little receivers on the ground was barely on the drawing-board.
Theories have ranged from the mundane (the greater stability of tropical climates imposes fewer random extinctions on species that are already there, allowing varieties to accumulate) to the wacky (that centrifugal force caused by the Earth's rotation exerts a slight pull towards the equator, thus biasing migration patterns).
The whole assembly is then welded around the equator, and the beryllium cladding providing the tamper and reflector layers attached to the outer surface.
Are refreshing breezes wafting through the political climate?Not really: sitting so close to the equator, Singapore does not have anything as dramatic as the season temperate countries call "spring".
So the difference between the poles and the equator is narrowing.
It would seem that the Fund adopts two different economic theories: one for north of the equator and another for south.JOSE SERRAMinister of healthBrasiliaSIR The cost-benefit ratio you quote concerning the impact of AIDS and malaria in Africa (Economics focus, April 29th) provides a compelling argument for western donors to finance the war against Africa's virulent killers.
IF MARTIANS exist, then any in the vicinity of Gale Crater on the Martian equator are in for a treat.
It has since purchased a stake in a Nigerian operator and arranged a $4 billion credit facility to pay for further expansion.Until last month Vodacom was prevented from expanding north of the equator by a pact between its British and South African parents.
