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prime meridians

prime meridians is the plural of prime meridian.

Meaning of prime meridian

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

Questions about prime meridians

What is prime meridians the plural of?
Prime meridians is the plural of prime meridian.

Words near prime meridians in the dictionary

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