longitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich

   The island lies at nearly the same longitude as the mainland.

2. 2
   noun

   Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.

   The island lies at nearly the same longitude as the mainland.

3. 3
   noun

   Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.

   The island lies at nearly the same longitude as the mainland.

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).

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