equator

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

equa·tor [equator equators] BrE [ɪˈkweɪtə(r)] NAmE [ɪˈkweɪtər] (usually the equator) noun singular
an imaginary line around the earth at an equal distance from the North and South Poles
•The island is twenty degrees south of the equator.

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis ‘circle equalizing day and night’, from Latin aequare ‘make equal’, from aequus ‘even, level, equal’.

Example Bank:
•The island is just 80 miles north of the equator.
•The lake lies exactly on the equator.
•The sun heats the sea more at the equator than at the poles.
•in an area near the equator