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prime meridian

prime meridian noun: the reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.

Noun

prime meridian (plural prime meridians)

  1. The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.
    • Other prime meridians were presented as candidates for the world's baseline: Jerusalem; Ferro; Kamchatka; the mid-Atlantic; the Bering Strait; and Greenwich's antimeridian.2017, Charles W. J. Withers, Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 183

prime meridian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Vietnamese

prime meridian in Hindi

reference line
प्रधान मध्याह्न रेखा pradhān madhyāhna rekhā

prime meridian in Tamil

முதனெடுங்கோடு, முதன்மை தீர்க்கக்கோடு

prime meridian in Arabic

reference line
خَطّ الزَّوَال ḵaṭṭ az-zawāl, خَطّ الطُّول الرَّئِيسِيّ ḵaṭṭ aṭ-ṭūl ar-raʔīsiyy, خَطّ غَرِينِيتْش ḵaṭṭ ḡarīnītš

prime meridian in Vietnamese

reference line
kinh tuyến gốc

Synonyms of prime meridian

Forms of prime meridian

pluralprime meridians

Questions about prime meridian

What does prime meridian mean?
Prime meridian means the reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.
What is prime meridian in Hindi?
Prime meridian in Hindi is प्रधान मध्याह्न रेखा (pradhān madhyāhna rekhā). See Prime meridian meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is prime meridian?
Prime meridian is a noun.
What is the plural of prime meridian?
The plural of prime meridian is prime meridians.

Words near prime meridian in the dictionary

  1. prime ideal
  2. prime ideals
  3. prime implicant
  4. prime implicants
  5. prime lens
  6. prime meridian
  7. prime meridians
  8. prime minister
  9. prime ministerial
  10. prime ministers
  11. prime ministership

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prime meridian (page history and authors); prime meridian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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