Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The difference in longitude between two positions as a result of movement to the east.
- noun Progress toward the east.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Reaching the point in its diurnal motion where it crosses the prime vertical and is exactly east of the observer: said of a heavenly body.
- noun Nautical and surveying, the distance eastward from a given meridian; the distance made by a ship on an eastern course, expressed in nautical miles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut. & Surv.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cartography The distance
east of a standard referencemeridian . - noun nautical A distance traveled eastward.
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Examples
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I had now made eighty degrees easting, which is the distance from the main at which Pepys 'Island is placed in
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"They talk about running the easting down," Mr. Pike chortled to me, as we clung to the poop-rail to keep from fetching away and breaking ribs and necks.
CHAPTER XL 2010
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And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.
CHAPTER XLV 2010
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Gale follows gale, always from the west, and we make easting.
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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And each time the eternal west wind smote him back and he made easting.
MAKE WESTING 2010
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It is then converted to easting, northing, lat and long so it can be used in a variety of apps.
Is anyone using machine tags/triples for National Grid references? Mia 2007
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This picture of Jesus easting cuy is found in Cusco cathedral, it is great!
Archive 2009-04-01 Williamson Family Blog 2009
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I enjoy dominion over you and easting you too, more then you can even comprehend!
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Ideally we'd publish NG, easting/northing and lat/long, because the stored data can be pushed through any transformations in the publication process.
Is anyone using machine tags/triples for National Grid references? Mia 2007
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Using these values, we can state that the easting as being 916 and the northing as 944.
Topographic maps 2008
dailyword commented on the word easting
This word was also used in the "Master And Commander" movie.
July 31, 2012