as in tropical
being near the equator
a lush equatorial rain forest that is threatened by rampant development
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The Coffee Belt refers to the equatorial region with the ideal conditions to grow coffee beans.
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Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
Two more are likely to go into halo orbits, and a fifth satellite will be placed into an equatorial orbit.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
El Niño – a natural climate pattern marked by warmer than average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific – typically leads to drier than normal conditions in the wet portions of West and Central Africa.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
To that end, NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission which in 2018 landed on the flat equatorial plains of Elysium Planitia, some 600km north of NASA’s Curiosity rover, spent four years taking data on the geophysics of Mars’ interior.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
Two more are likely to go into halo orbits, and a fifth satellite will be placed into an equatorial orbit.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
El Niño – a natural climate pattern marked by warmer than average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific – typically leads to drier than normal conditions in the wet portions of West and Central Africa.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
To that end, NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission which in 2018 landed on the flat equatorial plains of Elysium Planitia, some 600km north of NASA’s Curiosity rover, spent four years taking data on the geophysics of Mars’ interior.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Equatorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equatorial. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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