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EQUINOX (from the Lat. aequus, equal, and nox, night), a term used to express either the moment at which, or the point at which, the sun apparently crosses the celestial equator. Since the sun moves in the ecliptic, it is in the last-named sense the point of i ...

AQUINO, a town and episcopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta; it is 56 m. N.W. by rail from the town of Caserta, and 7^ m. N.W. of Cassino. Pop. (1901) 2672. The modern town, dose to the ancient, is unimportant, though the canons of the cath

... he credit of the discovery (c. 130 B.C.) of the theory of the precession of the equinoxes, for a knowledge of which among the Babylonians we find no definite proof; but such a signal advance in pure science did not prevent the Greeks from developing in a most ...

... day. The ecliptic intersects the celestial equator at two opposite points, the equinoxes, at an angle of 23° 27'. The vernal equinox is taken as the initial point on the sphere from which co-ordinates are measured in the equatorial and ecliptic systems. Refer ...

... communicating with the semicircular canals. The base of the stapes communicates EQUINOX pressures to the utricle. The membranous portion of the semicircular canals consists of a tube, dilated at one end into a swelling or pouch, termed the ampulla, and each en ...