Geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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2 This new act of 1774 repealed all the previous legislation on longitude .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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