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What does longitude mean?

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Noun
  1. (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
  2. (astronomy) Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
  3. (archaic) Length.
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Her certificate of discharge even recorded the longitude and latitude at which the company's contractual obligations ended.
The second and third groupings were obviously longitude and latitude coordinates.
To picture the difference, start with the way geographers mark longitude and latitude on Earth's surface.
Its goal is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.
To get your first map, determine the latitude and longitude of the center of your new map.
Each standard atlas covers thirty minutes of latitude and longitude at a scale of four miles to the inch, and fills one page in the book.

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