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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIME MERIDIAN

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Prime meridian is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PRIME MERIDIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Prime meridian

A prime meridian is a meridian, i.e., a line of longitude, at which longitude is defined to be 0°. A prime meridian and its opposite in a 360°-system, the 180th meridian, form a great circle. This great circle divides the sphere, e.g., the Earth, into two hemispheres. If one uses directions of East and West from a defined prime meridian, then they can be called Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. Gerardus Mercator in his Atlas Cosmographicae uses a prime meridian somewhere close to 25°W, passing just to the west of Santa Maria Island in the Atlantic. His 180th meridian runs along the Strait of Anián A prime meridian is ultimately arbitrary, unlike an equator, which is determined by the axis of rotation—and various conventions have been used or advocated in different regions and throughout history.

Definition of prime meridian in the English dictionary

The definition of prime meridian in the dictionary is the 0° meridian from which the other meridians or lines of longitude are calculated, usually taken to pass through Greenwich.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIME MERIDIAN

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIME MERIDIAN

aphidian
ascidian
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cantharidian
conidian
cycloidian
Dravidian
Euclidian
Floridian
iridian
magnetic meridian
meridian
Midian
Numidian
obsidian
ophidian
Ovidian
paradoxidian
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viridian

Synonyms and antonyms of prime meridian in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «prime meridian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIME MERIDIAN

Find out the translation of prime meridian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prime meridian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prime meridian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

本初子午线
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

meridiano
570 millions of speakers

English

prime meridian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रधानमंत्री मध्याह्न
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رئيس الزوال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

меридиан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meridiano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রধান মেরিডিয়ান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

méridien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meridian utama
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nullmeridian
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

本初子午線
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

본초 자오선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perdana Meridian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kinh tuyến gốc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரதம மரிடியன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुख्य मेरिडियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Asal meridyen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Prime Meridian
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

główny południk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

меридіан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prim meridian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεσημβρινού prime
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eerste meridiaan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nollmeridianen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nullmeridianen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prime meridian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIME MERIDIAN»

The term «prime meridian» is normally little used and occupies the 112.765 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIME MERIDIAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prime meridian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIME MERIDIAN»

Discover the use of prime meridian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prime meridian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology
In his tables, he placed only the readings based upon a prime meridian at Peking . In doing so, Martini was accommodating his European reader to the developed tradition of Chinese cartography which reflected the view of China as the ...
David E. Mungello, 1989
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Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the ...
All this activity over the prime meridian, with cartographers drawing their charts practically on a whim, got the French worried. In April 1634, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII's chief minister, convened an international meeting of European ...
Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger, 2006
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Physical Geography
Figure 2.7b shows that these two lines drawn from Earth's center define an angle, the arc of which is the angular distance that Los Angeles lies west of the prime meridian (118°W longitude). Figure 2.7c provides the location of Los Angeles by  ...
James Petersen, Dorothy Sack, Robert Gabler, 2011
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Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008
This is the datum used by MapPoint and Google Earth, as well as in handheld GPS systems. Prime Meridian As defined earlier in this chapter, the geographic coordinate of longitude is the angle in the equatorial plane between the line drawn ...
Alastair Aitchison, 2009
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Longman Geography ICSE 9
The longitude of a place is its angular distance measured from the centre of the earth, located east or west of the prime Meridian. Line of longitude is a line drawn on maps and globes connecting places having the same longitudinal value.
Duggal, Duggal Gita
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Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the ...
The United States started the Conference in 1884 by tabling a motion that identified Greenwich as the Prime Meridian. France started by saying that it regarded the Conference as one in which the principle would be examined but that a Prime ...
Paul Murdin, 2008
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Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science
The reference meridian, the meridian from which all others are marked, is known as the prime meridian. Unlike the equator, there is no earthly reason the prime meridian should pass through any particular place. It passes through Greenwich,  ...
Tom Garrison, 2012
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Camping & Wilderness Survival: The Ultimate Outdoors Book
Greenwich, England 0° Longitude Prime Meridian Latitudes arth's Axis Latitude & .ongitude Grid Grid placed on the Earth. Longitudes South Pole (Geographic) Geographic Coordinates Locating a Place on Earth By drawing a set of east-west  ...
Paul Tawrell, 2006
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Basic Geography
The Prime Meridian is the line designated 0° longitude and which passes through Greenwich, England. It is also called the Greenwich Meridian. It is the reference point in measuring distances eastward or westward. Therefore, it divides the ...
Agno,Lydia
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Scholastic 2010 Almanac for Kids: Facts, Figures, & Stats
It divides the world in half horizontally. Meridians run north and south, looping around the poles. The prime meridian divides the world in half vertically. Meridians are used to measure longitude, or distance east or west of the prime meridian.
Scholastic, Inc. Staff, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIME MERIDIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prime meridian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Six stunning parks you can't miss in Stockholm
Here you can also find Stockholm's prime meridian, which determined the time across the nation before Greenwich Mean Time was introduced ... «The Local.se, Jul 15»
2
REVIEW: Prefuse 73 - Every Color of Darkness
Prime Meridian Narcissism” has ear-tickling computer beeps and a complex arrangement of cut-up vocal clips to get lost in. Prefuse 73 has ... «Spacelab, Jul 15»
3
Where to eat for Downtown Atlanta Restaurant Week
Cantina, Pittypat's Porch Restaurant, Polaris, Poor Calvin's, Prime Meridian, Ray's in the City, ROOM at Twelve, STATS, Sway, Terrace Bistro, ... «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»
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UPSC Civil Services GK update - Physical Geography: The Earth …
c) All other meridians radiate eastwards and westwards from the prime meridian up to 180°. The linear distance between any two longitudes is ... «PaGaLGuY, Jul 15»
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Nedra's Big Deals: Restaurant Week, Legoland, Willy's Mexicana Grill
Choose from more than 35 participating restaurants (like Prime Meridian, right) with gourmet prix-fixe menus for $15, $25 or $35 for brunch, ... «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»
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Pluto To Come Into Focus In Two Weeks
In the annotated version, below, Pluto's prime meridian (the region of the planet that faces Charon) is shown in yellow and the equator is shown ... «Celebrity Cafe - Entertainment News, Jul 15»
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49 power projects ready by 2019
s Prime Meridian PowerGen Corp. is ready to fire up its 100-MW San Gabriel Avion power plant in Batangas in September this year. The project ... «Business Mirror, Jul 15»
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Pluto shows two different faces as New Horizons closes in
In the annotated version, Pluto's prime meridian (the region of the planet that faces Charon) is shown in yellow and the equator is shown in pink ... «SpaceFlight Insider, Jul 15»
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Golden Hope Mines Announces Results of the Annual General …
Mr. Dehn is also the President of Phoenix Metals Corporation, the President of Prime Meridian Resources Corp., the Chief Executive Officer ... «Stockhouse, Jul 15»
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'Leap second': It's time to let the world catch up
... reason we do not want to get rid of the leap second is because we are the custodians of the world's prime meridian. If the leap second is lost, ... «The Australian, Jun 15»

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