meridian

The route from New York to Istanbul to Santiago would have tacked on two unnecessary crossings of the prime meridian.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024

Since early September, they had logged nearly 12,000 miles aboard the Offshore Surveyor, crisscrossing the equator near the 180th meridian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

The line, which for centuries has fallen roughly along the 100th meridian, has moved east by about 140 miles since the late 1800s.

From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023

"It seems a little incriminating," he said, explaining that he had pulled it out of a grassy meridian and torn it up.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2022

The Distracted Globe was located at the western-hemisphere intersection of the Boulevard and the Avenue, two brightly lit streets that stretched completely around the planet along its equator and prime meridian.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

“A central credo in TCM is that blockages in meridians lead to imbalances in health, including illness or pain,” Ko said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians," Ishmael imagines Queequeg saying at one point in the novel.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021

Acupuncture’s specialized needle placements restore the balance of yin and yang by reducing disruptions along the meridians, improving the flow of qi and promoting healing.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021

The terrestrial poles, equator, and meridians will be projected as dark shadows on the celestial sphere, giving us the system of coordinates in the sky.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

All the meridians of energy that ran across the Great Wood buckled beneath her touch.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo