prime meridian
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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
In the 1980s, new satellite data helped reorient the prime meridian 334 feet to the east, where it now runs through a park.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2017
The intersection of the prime meridian and the equator lies on the positive x-axis.
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
