LONGITUDE


Meaning of LONGITUDE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

line of latitude/longitude

They were still travelling along the same line of longitude.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

find

He said he was trying to find the latitude and longitude of the nearest pie.

In the course of their struggle to find longitude , scientists struck upon other discoveries that changed their view of the universe.

By any name, the instrument soon helped sailors find their latitude and longitude .

In spite of these obvious difficulties, Galileo had designed a special navigation helmet for finding longitude with the Jovian satellites.

To prove worthy of the 20, 000 prize, a clock had to find longitude within half a degree.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The town is at longitude 21° east.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In the course of their struggle to find longitude , scientists struck upon other discoveries that changed their view of the universe.

Perhaps there was a way to read longitude in the relative positions of the celestial bodies.

The time signals must originate from places of known latitude and longitude .

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