noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
line of latitude/longitude
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They were still travelling along the same line of longitude.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
find
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He said he was trying to find the latitude and longitude of the nearest pie.
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In the course of their struggle to find longitude , scientists struck upon other discoveries that changed their view of the universe.
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By any name, the instrument soon helped sailors find their latitude and longitude .
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In spite of these obvious difficulties, Galileo had designed a special navigation helmet for finding longitude with the Jovian satellites.
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To prove worthy of the 20, 000 prize, a clock had to find longitude within half a degree.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The town is at longitude 21° east.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the course of their struggle to find longitude , scientists struck upon other discoveries that changed their view of the universe.
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Perhaps there was a way to read longitude in the relative positions of the celestial bodies.
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The time signals must originate from places of known latitude and longitude .