Equator. The Terrestrial Equator is the great circle on the earth's surface dividing the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres, and halfway between the poles.—The Celestial Equator is the great circle in the sky corresponding to the extension of the equator of the earth.
Equator.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 405
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