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c. Angular distance in an east–west direction, parallel to the equator; the distance between two places measured as the angle between their meridians (now chiefly historical). in longitude: in a direction parallel to the equator.

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1595 J. Davis Seamans Secrets i. sig. G6 The longitude betweene place and place, is the portion of the Equator which is contained betweene the Meridians of the same places.

1625 M. Pring in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. vii. §3. 639 Betweene the Ile Engano and Messulepatan, I made nineteene degrees and thirtie minutes of great Circle in longitude.

1763 Philos. Trans 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 ii. 610 We reckon the longitude between Greenwich and Paris to be 9′ 20″: but I do not know what are the observations upon which it is founded.

1808 T. O. Churchill Life Lord Viscount Nelson 8 Having penetrated to the latitude of 81° 36' north, and traversed seventeen degrees and a half of longitude, between that and 79°, a squadron was equipping for the East Indies.

1875 Rep. Superintendent U.S. Coast Surv. 1872 House of Representatives 227 Upon the successful completion of the Atlantic telegraph from Ireland to Newfoundland, measures were at once taken to make use of that means for the determination of the longitude between the two continents.

1971 B. Z. Jones Harvard Coll. Observatory iii. 146 Winlock had also made connections with the system of telegraph lines of the country by a loop from the line between Boston and Fitchburg for determining the longitude between the Observatory and the Coast Survey Station in Washington.

2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Dec. 29/1 The boundary's meanders are spaced roughly every 45 degrees in longitude, with long cracks extending from some toward the equator.

单词	in longitude
释义	> as lemmas in longitude c. Angular distance in an east–west direction, parallel to the equator; the distance between two places measured as the angle between their meridians (now chiefly historical). in longitude: in a direction parallel to the equator. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > longitude > difference of longitude between places longitude1595 1595 J. Davis Seamans Secrets i. sig. G6 The longitude betweene place and place, is the portion of the Equator which is contained betweene the Meridians of the same places. 1625 M. Pring in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. vii. §3. 639 Betweene the Ile Engano and Messulepatan, I made nineteene degrees and thirtie minutes of great Circle in longitude. 1763 Philos. Trans 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 ii. 610 We reckon the longitude between Greenwich and Paris to be 9′ 20″: but I do not know what are the observations upon which it is founded. 1808 T. O. Churchill Life Lord Viscount Nelson 8 Having penetrated to the latitude of 81° 36' north, and traversed seventeen degrees and a half of longitude, between that and 79°, a squadron was equipping for the East Indies. 1875 Rep. Superintendent U.S. Coast Surv. 1872 House of Representatives 227 Upon the successful completion of the Atlantic telegraph from Ireland to Newfoundland, measures were at once taken to make use of that means for the determination of the longitude between the two continents. 1971 B. Z. Jones Harvard Coll. Observatory iii. 146 Winlock had also made connections with the system of telegraph lines of the country by a loop from the line between Boston and Fitchburg for determining the longitude between the Observatory and the Coast Survey Station in Washington. 2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Dec. 29/1 The boundary's meanders are spaced roughly every 45 degrees in longitude, with long cracks extending from some toward the equator. extracted from longituden. < as lemmas
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