Longitude
['lɒn(d)ʒɪtjuːd;'lɒŋgɪ-] or ['lɑndʒətud]
Definition
(noun.) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich.
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Definition
(n.) Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
(n.) 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; as, that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.
(n.) 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; as, the longitude of Capella is 79¡.
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Examples
- I have not got the ship's journal to refer to, and I cannot now call to mind the latitude and longitude. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And when we come to speak of beauty, this sea is no more to be compared to Tahoe than a meridian of longitude is to a rainbow. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The captain having been at Tonquin, was, in his return to England, driven north-eastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and longitude of 143. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The true heliocentric longitude was given as 326° 32' for January 1, 1847. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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