An imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator.
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Examples for "meridian"
Examples for "meridian"
1A B is the principal meridian; C D is the base line.
2The profuseness of the illuminations outdid the brightness of the meridian sun.
3This line will be the meridian of the place you are in.
4By about Christmas we had reached nearly the 150th meridian in lat.
5Its centre is crossed by the sixty-fourth meridian and the thirty-second parallel.
1The end of every line of longitude is right here in a bunch.
2The terror had been taking place along roughly the same line of longitude in Texas for more than thirty-five years.
3To be classed as a world record, the solo circumnavigation has to cross the equator and every line of longitude.
4If they went under the ice at some point eastward, how were they to find the seventieth line of longitude?
5The first mate announced that they had crossed the third line of longitude and entered the realm known and feared as the Devonshire coast.
6All these threads, and more, entwine in the lines of longitude.
7What the lines of longitude and latitude did for geography Linnæus' genius did for botany.
8Instead, most preferred elliptical projections, using progressively curved lines of longitude and latitude to create artificial rounding.
9Images swept through her, a wire frame of the earth, red fire spreading along its lines of longitude and latitude.
10Climates are not found coincident with lines of latitude; they are quite as often found parallel to lines of longitude.
11These "grid cells" are akin to lines of longitude and latitude, helping the brain to judge distance and navigate.
12Up to the present moment no geographer has ventured to trace the lines of longitude and latitude in the ocean of marriage.
13And you need to cross all lines of longitude, plus the equator at least twice, with a minimum distance covered of 21,600 nautical miles.
Translations for line of longitude