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false eastings

false eastings is the plural of false easting.

Meaning of false easting

Noun

false easting (plural false eastings)

  1. A value relating to distance east of a standard meridian but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in UTM the value 500,000 is added to the easting from the center of each zone to return a false easting that is never negative (the smallest true easting is approximately -340,000 which is set to false easting of 160,000).

Questions about false eastings

What is false eastings the plural of?
False eastings is the plural of false easting.

Words near false eastings in the dictionary

  1. false door
  2. false doors
  3. false drop
  4. false drops
  5. false easting
  6. false eastings
  7. false economies
  8. false economy
  9. false equivalence
  10. false equivalences
  11. false eyelash

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