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longitude
/ˈlɑnd͡ʒəˌtud/
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What does longitude mean?
noun
- Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
- Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic) Length.
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/ˈlɑnd͡ʒəˌtud/
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See this word in context.
I have not got the ship’s journal to refer to, and I cannot now call to mind the latitude and longitude.
Dovers made a long series of observations for longitude, latitude and magnetic variation, while Hoadley examined the rocks and took photographs.
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But it would suffice for my purpose, if the temperature was at the same time lower along certain broad belts of longitude.
After an epigram that seems to have found out the longitude, I shall tell you but one more, and that wondrous short.
But it was quite different as regarded the longitude that is, the distance of any place from a given meridian, eastward or westward.