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Definition of meridian
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of meridian is as below...
Meridian
(a.) Being at, or
pertaining
to,
midday;
belonging
to, or
passing
through,
the
highest
point
attained
by the sun in his
diurnal
course..
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Meridionally
::
Meridionally
(adv.)
In the
direction
of the
meridian.
Latitude
::
Latitude
(n.)
Distance
north or south of the
equator,
measured
on a
meridian..
Meridionality
::
Meridionality
(n.) The state of being in the
meridian.
Meridian
::
Meridian
(a.) A great
circle
on the
surface
of the
earth,
passing
through
the poles and any given
place;
also, the half of such a
circle
included
between
the
poles..
North
::
North (n.) That one of the four
cardinal
points
of the
compass,
at any
place,
which lies in the
direction
of the true
meridian,
and to the left hand of a
person
facing
the east; the
direction
opposite
to the
south..
Longitude
::
Longitude
(n.) The arc or
portion
of the
equator
intersected
between
the
meridian
of a given place and the
meridian
of some other place from which
longitude
is
reckoned,
as from
Greenwich,
England,
or
sometimes
from the
capital
of a
country,
as from
Washington
or
Paris.
The
longitude
of a place is
expressed
either
in
degrees
or in time; as, that of New York is 74ยก or 4 h. 56 min. west of
Greenwich..
Northing
::
Northing
(n.)
Distance
northward
from any point of
departure
or of
reckoning,
measured
on a
meridian;
--
opposed
to
southing..
Noon
::
Noon (n.) The
middle
of the day;
midday;
the time when the sun is in the
meridian;
twelve
o'clock
in the
daytime.
Transit
::
Transit
(n.) The
passage
of a
heavenly
body over the
meridian
of a
place,
or
through
the field of a
telescope..
Drift
::
Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a
ship's
motion
makes with the
meridian,
in
drifting..
Southing
::
Southing
(n.) The time at which the moon, or other
heavenly
body,
passes
the
meridian
of a
place..
Rhumb
::
Rhumb (n.) A line which
crosses
successive
meridians
at a
constant
angle;
--
called
also rhumb line, and
loxodromic
curve.
See
Loxodromic..
Inferior
::
Inferior
(a.) Below the
horizon;
as, the
inferior
part of a
meridian..
Meridian
::
Meridian
(a.)
Pertaining
to the
highest
point or
culmination;
as,
meridian
splendor..
Perioecians
::
Perioecians
(n. pl.) Those who live on the same
parallel
of
latitude
but on
opposite
meridians,
so that it is noon in one place when it is
midnight
in the
other.
Compare
Antoeci..
Day
::
Day (n.) The
period
of the
earth's
revolution
on its axis. --
ordinarily
divided
into
twenty-four
hours.
It is
measured
by the
interval
between
two
successive
transits
of a
celestial
body over the same
meridian,
and takes a
specific
name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the
interval
between
two
successive
transits
of the sun's
center
over the same
meridian)
is
called
a solar day; if it is a star, a
sidereal
day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day,
Sidereal
day
Pole
::
Pole (n.) A point upon the
surface
of a
sphere
equally
distant
from every part of the
circumference
of a great
circle;
or the point in which a
diameter
of the
sphere
perpendicular
to the plane of such
circle
meets the
surface.
Such a point is
called
the pole of that
circle;
as, the pole of the
horizon;
the pole of the
ecliptic;
the pole of a given
meridian..
Culmination
::
Culmination
(n.) The
attainment
of the
highest
point of
altitude
reached
by a
heavently
body;
passage
across
the
meridian;
transit.
Meridian
::
Meridian
(a.)
Hence:
The
highest
point,
as of
success,
prosperity,
or the like;
culmination..
Meridional
::
Meridional
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to the
meridian.
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