Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying in the direction of a meridian; meridional.
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Examples
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Hence the best zero point on earth for meridianal and latitudinal calculations.
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild
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The rocks and the sand between them gave out coolness; the sun shone on her head and shoulders, but with less than its meridianal fury.
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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Thus, the apparent expansion that should have occurred in these more or less northerly sides is lessened, or roughly compensated, probably by a compression of the whole region in a meridianal direction.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899
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The utter absence of any regularity, or assimilation to the spheroidal figure, either in meridianal, equatorial, or parallel lines, mountain ranges, sea beaches, or courses of rivers, is fatal to mathematical accuracy in the more extended geographical measurements.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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