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• The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.From the entry low
• Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.From the entry prime
• The longitudinal position of a ship refers to its angular distance east or west from the prime meridian.From the entry longitudinal
• The local meridian and the antimeridian together form the great circle simply called the meridian.2006, William Millar, The Amateur Astronomer's Introduction to the Celestial Sphere, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry antimeridian
• It circulates to every cell in the body, via the meridian system and blood stream.1991, Philip A M Rogers, “Holistic Concepts of Health and Disease”, in Acupuncture in Animals (Proceedings (University of Sydney…. From the entry ch'i
• Universal time is the civil time of the international meridian.2012, Pierre Léna, Daniel Rouan, François Lebrun, François Mignard, Didier Pelat, Observational Astrophysics, Springer Science & Business…. From the entry civil time
• Diagnostics also suggested that treatment of the triple energizer and kidney meridians would help to treat the problem.2003, Eric D. Leskowitz, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation, page 221. From the entry triple energizer
• 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. From the entry prime meridian
• Other prime meridians were presented as candidates for the world's baseline: Jersualem; 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. From the entry antimeridian
• There are few people who know which buttons to push on which meridians to render you a wet noodle, and Ivan is one of them.2014, Sara Pizano, The Joan Chronicles, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry wet noodle
• Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.2009, Stephen V. Estopinal, A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys, page 91. From the entry monument
• In the Mercator projection, the line of intersection between the cylinder and the sphere is the equator, while in the Traverse Mercator this line is a meridian.2018, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Space Image Processing, Routledge, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry Mercator
• And I take real care if I am crossing the Greenwich meridian or the equator, when the scale reverses: it is incredibly easy to misplot a position.2018, Paul Boissier, Understanding a Nautical Chart. From the entry misplot
• Meridian is a construct akin to a Dyson sphere: a vast, hollow shell encompassing a power source that provides heat and light to lush green biomes in the interior.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Meridian Codex entry. From the entry Dyson sphere
• The concentration of more central tumors progressed by age quartiles in a roughly circumfoveal trajectory from superotemporal to inferotemporal to inferonasal to nasal meridian, with an increasing average eccentricity.2015 August 1, “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Tumor Occurrence in Children with Intraocular Retinoblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry circumfoveal
• The moving qi between the kidneys starts at qi hai; the triple warmer meridian receives it and sends it up to the head and into the brain.1988, Kiiko Matsumoto, Stephen Birch, Hara Diagnosis: Reflections on the Sea, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry triple warmer

Meaning of meridian

1. noun In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.
2. noun In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude.
3. noun The place on the celestial meridian where it is crossed by the sun or a star at its highest point.

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How do you use meridian in a sentence?

Meridian is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.”

What is a short sentence with meridian?

“Universal time is the civil time of the international meridian.”

What does meridian mean?

Meridian means in full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.