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| NOUN | a meridian | meridians | |
| SYNO | line of longitude | meridian | prime |
geogr. meridiaan {de} | meridian |
Translation for 'meridian' from English to Dutch
- meridian
- meridiaan {de}geogr.
Usage Examples English
- The meridian of the United States was changed to the center of the small dome of the Old Naval Observatory in 1850 ("see Old Naval Observatory meridian") and finally replaced by the Greenwich Meridian as the legal prime meridian for both boundaries and navigation in 1912.
- In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian).
- Tallahassee meridian (a principal meridian).
- The 90th meridian west forms a great circle with the 90th meridian east, located midway between the Prime meridian and the 180th meridian; thus, the center of the Western Hemisphere is on this meridian.
