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Adjective(1) relating to the vicinity of the equator(2) relating to an equinox (when the lengths of night and day are equal(3) relating to an equinox (when the lengths or night and dayare equal)
Noun(1) the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles

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(1) But Numa may also have had an equinoctial birthday.(2) Two large stones also stand almost due east and west to mark the local equinoctial positions of the sun.(3) The nights start drawing in quite quickly, and by late September the first of the equinoctial gales will have appeared with the weather in the hills of Scotland turning decidedly chilly at times.(4) You know, it's s good thing you're coming at the beginning of the month - that way you won't feel the force of the equinoctial storms(5) A star on the north side of the equinoctial is in northern declination, and one on the southern side is in southern declination.(6) That's the simple explanation anyway - you can check the exact equinoctial dates and times here, if you're so inclined.(7) The declination of a heavenly body is its angular distance from the equinoctial or celestial equator.(8) The Orinoco, the Eio Magdalena, and the Congo or Zaire, are the only great rivers of the equinoctial region of the globe.(9) Outside, the equinoctial storms of mid-September are raging.(10) Lindley has made us acquainted with a species of Salix belonging to Senegal, and therefore to the equinoctial region of Africa.(11) The sundial above, dated 1509, shows equinoctial hours with a gnomon parallel to the earth's axis.(12) One of the effects of equinoctial periods is their temporary disruptive effect on communications satellites.(13) They are also equinoctial tides, occurring just after the autumn equinox on September 23, which would normally bring the highest tides of the year.