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prime meridian

[prahym muh-rid-ee-uhn] / ˈpraɪm məˈrɪd i ən /
NOUN
base of longitudinal lines
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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

Figure 2.104 In the latitude–longitude system, angles describe the location of a point on Earth relative to the equator and the prime meridian.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

Number of delegates from 25 nations who met in Washington in 1884 to set the universal prime meridian location as the Royal Observatory Greenwich, in London.

From Washington Post Mar. 12, 2015

Interestingly, with or without filtering, a large visible stripe that’s apparently devoid of tweets appears over the prime meridian in London.

From Forbes Dec. 5, 2014

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



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