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Meanings of longitude in English
Geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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Usage of longitude in English
1
The latitude number counted down slowly, and the longitude number slower still.
2
This new act of 1774 repealed all the previous legislation on longitude.
3
The time signals must originate from places of known latitude and longitude.
4
Clocks, the most perfect in mechanism, disagree if they differ in longitude.
5
I again succeeded in obtaining an observation, this time for the longitude.
6
Writing of this chart, he says that the longitude in which Lieut.
7
They stated that the longitude was fifty-six degrees west of the Canaries.
8
You're two centuries out in time, or a few thousand miles longitude.
9
The second is the mountain division, embracing about five degrees of longitude.
10
This followed the extension of Nevada eastward for one degree of longitude.
11
Nothing could have been more correct than our observations for the longitude.
12
He started, in all his deathly longitude, as with a galvanic shock.
13
Those same fifteen degrees of longitude also correspond to a distance traveled.
14
It is not limited by parallels of latitude, or meridians of longitude.
15
Tom copied down the latitude and longitude figures as his father dictated.
16
But I am getting out of my longitude, as I did then.
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Translations for longitude
Portuguese
Catalan
Longitude through the time
Longitude across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common