Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the Prime Meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds.
- noun Celestial longitude.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Length; measure along the longest line.
- noun In geography, the angle at the pole contained between two meridians, one of which, called the first or prime meridian, passes through some conventional point from which the angle is measured.
- noun In astronomy, the arc of the ecliptic measured eastward from the vernal equinoctial point to the foot of the circle of latitude drawn through the object, as a star or other point on the sphere whose position is in question. See
circle of latitudes , under circle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from
breadth orthickness ; ; rare now, except in a humorous sense. - noun (Geog.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time
- noun (Astron.) The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated.
- noun (Astron.) the longitude of a heavenly body as seen from the earth.
- noun the longitude of a heavenly body, as seen from the sun's center.
- noun certain stars whose position is known, and the data in regard to which are used in observations for finding the longitude, as by lunar distances.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Angular distance measured west or east of theprime meridian . - noun Any imaginary
line perpendicular to theequator and part of agreat circle passing through theNorth Pole andSouth Pole . - noun archaic
Length .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Kerguelen himself only says that it is about 68° of E. longitude, _par_ 68° _de longitude_.
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In the days before global positioning satellites, a chronometer - a super-accurate clock - was used to help ascertain longitude on the seas.
The meaningful sounds that signal the end of a military day John Kelly 2010
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This noon she was eight miles east of yesterday's position, yet to-day's position, in longitude, was within
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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In the days before global positioning satellites, a chronometer - a super-accurate clock - was used to help ascertain longitude on the seas.
The meaningful sounds that signal the end of a military day John Kelly 2010
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I took a new reading of latitude and longitude from the driveway of the campground and adjusted my database (it is Latitude: +42.04159, Longitude: -71.28098, in case you are keeping track).
In GPS We Trust 2008
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He tells a story of how a clock maker invented the modern system of latitute (as in longitude and latitude), and the moral of the story is that time is the archival system for the measurement (and thus understanding) of space, and that time is also the archival system for the measurement (and thus the understanding) of music (rhythm).
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He tells a story of how a clock maker invented the modern system of latitute (as in longitude and latitude), and the moral of the story is that time is the archival system for the measurement (and thus understanding) of space, and that time is also the archival system for the measurement (and thus the understanding) of music (rhythm).
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He tells a story of how a clock maker invented the modern system of latitute (as in longitude and latitude), and the moral of the story is that time is the archival system for the measurement (and thus understanding) of space, and that time is also the archival system for the measurement (and thus the understanding) of music (rhythm).
Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » DJ Spooky will blow your mind 2008
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And the third time he mentioned the word longitude, I thought, ` He's read my book and he liked it. '
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 1999
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And so I started to read that review and I noticed the word longitude came up very soon.
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 1999
brtom commented on the word longitude
Her longitudes are wickedness.
Her anvil is corporeal sorrow.
Raymond Farr, on the communal As/Is
December 21, 2006