longitude
经度,经纬度,经线,纬度
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- : Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- : Astronomy. celestial longitude. galactic longitude.
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It lived at 0 degrees both latitude and longitude, a point known as “Null Island” by geocoders because it represents data that is empty, or null.
The tissue first folded itself into a spheroid with its fibers forming a pattern like lines of longitude on Earth, which are parallel near the equator but sharply change orientation as they converge at the North and South poles.
Rattray wouldn’t know it yet, but when he switched his computer on to check on her progress, he would find Serenity at almost precisely the longitude of her final destination in Farquhar Atoll.
The longitude between Queens and the Kremlin gave Channel One some latitude.
She likes to use "grand words" like latitude and longitude; her biggest fear is to appear "ignorant."
Its habitat in Australia is known to extend as wide as twenty-four degrees of latitude, and twenty-six degrees of longitude.
The longitude of the south-west end of this island is by Captain Flinders' observation in 150 degrees 13 minutes East.
Croton quadripartitum, Labill., was observed in longitude 148 degrees.
It was seen in the latitude and longitude of an island visited by Drake, marked in the old charts.
The late Board of Longitude was another source of patronage, which, although now abolished, it may be useful to hint at.