easting

/ee-sting/US // ˈi stɪŋ //UK // (ˈiːstɪŋ) //

延伸,延伸性,延伸法,延伸率

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- : a shifting eastward; easterly direction.
- : Surveying. a distance east from a north-south reference line.

We have been making a little easting, but that is all, and we are getting into the region of ice.
Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to “run their easting down.”
It was possible that the Dornoch had proceeded directly to the southward, after making less easting than was anticipated.
"She has made all the easting necessary, and by this time she has laid her course about south-west," continued the commander.
I didn't suppose a couple of thousand miles of easting would take the heart out of things the way it does.