March equinox

Definitions of March equinox

1. noun

   a time when the Sun's path crosses northward over the equator, marking the start of spring in the northern hemisphere and of fall in the southern hemisphere
   types:

   Noruz, Nowrooz, Nowruz

   (Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox

   type of:

   equinox

   either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length