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longitude::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | angular distance |
| Derivation | longitudinal |
Examples of longitude
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They worked on using map scale and locating places using longitude and latitude.
From the DesMoinesRegister.com
Hi Douglas,We actually included the exact latitude and longitude in the caption.
From the newscientist.com
So if you want to measure your longitude, you need some sort of prior knowledge.
From the scienceblogs.com
For terrestrial navigation these coordinates can include longitude and latitude.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The graticule determines the latitude and longitude of positions on the surface.
From the en.wikipedia.org
After all, it ranges across 21 degrees of latitude and 43 degrees of longitude.
From the sfgate.com
Each map has to have a compass rose, key, scale and latitude and longitude lines.
From the al.com
This in turn led to an interest in astronomy as a way of determining longitude.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He typed in Fort Meade's latitude and longitude and searched for Twitter users.
From the washingtonpost.com
- The angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison, an 18th-century clockmaker who created the first clock (chronometer) sufficiently accurate to be used to determine longitude at seau2014an important development in navigation. The book was made into a television series entitled Longitude...
- Longitude was a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Productions and A&E for Channel 4, first broadcast in 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E. It was an adaptation of the 1997 book of the same title by Dava Sobel. ...
- (Longitudes) The commonly used dimension of astrology- the locations of the planets horizontally around the zodiac wheel.
- (1) Terrestrial or Geographical. The distance of any point on the Earth's surface, E. or W. of Greenwich; measured by geographers in degrees; by astronomers, in hours. (2) Celestial. ...
- The distance of a planet from the first point of Aries.
- Position on the east-west coordinate, only made possible in the eighteenth century with the invention of chronometers.
- The second component of a spherical coordinate system used to record east-west positions on the earth's surface, measured in degrees as the arc or position of the earth's equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the prime meridian, which runs through Greenwich, England. ...
- Degrees difference East or West from Greenwich, England.
