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Meanings of geographic meridian in English
Line between the poles with the same longitude.
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Examples for "meridian"
Examples for "meridian"
1
A B is the principal meridian; C D is the base line.
2
The profuseness of the illuminations outdid the brightness of the meridian sun.
3
This line will be the meridian of the place you are in.
4
By about Christmas we had reached nearly the 150th meridian in lat.
5
Its centre is crossed by the sixty-fourth meridian and the thirty-second parallel.
1
The end of every line of longitude is right here in a bunch.
2
The terror had been taking place along roughly the same line of longitude in Texas for more than thirty-five years.
3
To be classed as a world record, the solo circumnavigation has to cross the equator and every line of longitude.
4
If they went under the ice at some point eastward, how were they to find the seventieth line of longitude?
5
The first mate announced that they had crossed the third line of longitude and entered the realm known and feared as the Devonshire coast.
1
This was a purely geographical meridian, being attached to no capital, to no national observatory, and consequently neutral, or, if you please, purely geographical.
Translations for geographic meridian
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