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Northing :: Northing (n.) Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to southing..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..

Appulse :: Appulse (n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian..

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..

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..

Meridian :: Meridian (a.) Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination..

Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing..

Meridian :: Meridian (a.) Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course..

Meridionally :: Meridionally (adv.) In the direction of the meridian.

Analemma :: Analemma (n.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon..

Antoecians :: Antoecians (n. pl) Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator..

Midheaven :: Midheaven (n.) The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian..

Culmination :: Culmination (n.) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

Declination :: Declination (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south..

Magnetical :: Magnetical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian..

Range :: Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart..

Rhumb :: Rhumb (n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic..

Antemeridian :: Antemeridian (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m..

Low :: Low (adv.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian..

Easting :: Easting (n.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

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