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longitude | American Dictionary

longitude
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈlɑn·dʒɪˌtud/
the position to the east or west of an imaginary circle around the earth that goes through the North Pole, the South Pole, and Greenwich, England

Examples of longitude

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It would seem that the lure of longitude was here used as a literary device to pique interest in the publication.
The longitude position in linear movement phase and the heading angle in rotating phase are guaranteed to match the path in scouting process.
To the south of a specified latitude, the coordinate system uses latitude and longitude.
While there have been many studies of the race to determine longitude, advertisements have not received close scrutiny.
It means that the longitude position of the robot in returning stage matches the recorded data appropriately.
Indeed, it may be for this reason that the stronger correlation with longitude was observed with the genotype data than the allele frequency scores.
Geographic distance was calculated using latitude and longitude data for isolate source locations.
What is more, the title page of the book does not contain the same promise of a longitude solution as found in the newspaper ad.
Simple correlations between frequencies of different inversions and regression analysis of inversion frequencies with latitude, longitude and altitude were insignificant.
All saturated models included the rural degree and weather variables as well as latitude and longitude.
Although you can represent each city on a latitude line, you cannot locate it unless you also know its longitude.
If it varies with latitude or longitude, it can impart a spatial signature.
Solutions that relied on the accuracy of instruments were common among the longitude ads.
We have seen that ads for longitude may be considered as both texts of marketing persuasion and as pieces of scientific rhetoric.
The existence of longitude ads indicates that natural philosophy had certainly become a component of the public sphere.
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