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How to use longitude in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Longitude means angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian. Example: “But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen?”

Examples of longitude by meaning

nounAngular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.

  • But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen?2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2...

nounLength.

  • The floor consists of a corrugated steel section attached by welding to the body longitudes and cross members.1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 276

More sentences with longitude

  • The longitude of the comet is not usually specified at a particular epoch.2011, Peter Duffett-Smith, Jonathan Zwart, “The Planets, Comets and Binary Stars”, in Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator or…. From the entry perihelion
  • This is quite easy to find by taking your longitude and dividing it by fifteen.2011, Lawrence Rick, Life is a Cruise: The Log of Done Dreamin', page 83. From the entry zonetime
  • Galileo had designed a special navigation helmet for finding longitude with the Jovian satellites.1995, Dava Sobel, Longitude. From the entry celatone
  • The colongitude is the longitude of the terminator, that is the location of the separation between the lunar day and night.2016, Nicolas Dupont-Bloch, Shoot the Moon: A Complete Guide to Lunar Imaging, page 16. From the entry colongitude
  • Map locations in the Android mapping classes are represented by GeoPoint objects, which contain latitude and longitude measured in microdegrees.2010, Reto Meier, Professional Android 2 Application Development, page 264. From the entry microdegree
  • First a map of the world appeared in greens and blues on the screen, overlaid with lines of latitude and longitude.2009, Don Pendleton, Interception, page 69. From the entry cyberwizard
  • Solving longitude was one of the major preoccupations of European nations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.2005, Michael R. Matthews, Colin F. Gauld, Arthur Stinner, “The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy”, in Michael R.…. From the entry king's ransom
  • A ewogram is similar to a keogram except that the vertical axis is magnetic longitude instead of magnetic latitude for a keogram.2011 June 21, William Liu, Masaki Fujimoto, “Part II Magnetotail Dynamics”, in The Dynamic Magnetosphere, illustrated edition, volume 3…. From the entry keogram
  • The location of the primary impact crater was 25° 55’ north latitude, 80° 35’ west longitude, or approximately 17 miles northwest of MIA.1997, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Fire and Impact with Terrain…. From the entry impact crater
  • For instance, Eudoxus ignored the sun's anomalistic motion in longitude, but he believed in a motion in latitude which does not exist.1953, B. L. van der Waerden, “History of the Zodiac”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, volume 16, page 225. From the entry anomalistic
  • Peters, viz.: that the instrument used for the longitudes of the original catalogue was graduated differently to that used for the latitudes.1915, Edward Knobel, Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars – A Revision of the Almagest, page 14 (showing that "to" was used by an Englishman in…. From the entry different
  • It is found convenient generally to have a time belt fifteen degrees in width, that is to say the time belts generally include, each, fifteen degrees of longitude.1915, Albert B. Olston, The Story of Time, page 71. From the entry time belt
  • While bound east, latitude 41 degrees, longitude 56 degrees 54 minutes, during a northerly gale with very high rolling seas, used storm oil through forward waste pipe with good effect.1914, Leslie's, page 322. From the entry storm oil

Meaning of longitude

  1. noun Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
  2. noun Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
  3. noun Length.

Full definition of longitude

Questions about longitude in a sentence

How do you use longitude in a sentence?
Longitude is used as a noun. For example: “But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen?”
What is a short sentence with longitude?
“The longitude of the comet is not usually specified at a particular epoch.”
What does longitude mean?
Longitude means angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.

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