longitude
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- noun
- /ˈlɒndʒɪtud/
- Specialized
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longitud
- He marked the longitude of the new island on the navigation chart.
- latitude and longitude
- degrees of longitude
- longitude 72°
I'll find the latitude, longitude and show up there.
- I'll find the latitude, longitude and show up there.
- We variable get the longitude OK and we store it in a vector.
- We could not measure longitude, very important issue if you're a navigator and A and a sailor.
- OK, Well, it it does point to him if you're exactly on the longitude where the north magnetic pole is found.
- Yeah, The same latitude, The longitude.
Examples
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Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors literally became lost at sea once they lost sight of land.
Academic text (2003) -
Her present location is latitude 58 degrees north, longitude 178 degrees east.
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That means we should be at longitude 38.25.
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Longitude 57 degrees, 40 minutes west.
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But he made two key suggestions that were of tremendous help in solving the longitude problem.
Academic text (2002) -
When they reached their assigned destinations, they measured the latitude and longitude and sent the results back to Paris.
Academic text (2002) -
Students could give latitude and longitude as evidence of absolute location mastery.
Academic text (2013) -
In 1832, Captain Benjamin Bonneville used Jupiter's moons to determine his longitude on his western expedition.
Academic text (2002) -
The ship's position is determined by its latitude and longitude.
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To find the exact location on the map, we need the longitude and latitude coordinates.
Compounds
- Specialized
How far east a star or planet is along the sky's equator from the spring equinox
- Specialized
An imaginary north-south line through both poles showing location east or west
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Longitude comes from the Latin root longus meaning 'long' and is like the English words long and length. So longitude tells how far east or west a place is on the Earth, a kind of 'long' distance around the globe, which is why maps use it to show a location.