LONGITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does longitude mean? 

• LONGITUDE (noun)
  The noun LONGITUDE has 1 sense:

1. the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich

  Familiarity information: LONGITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONGITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("longitude" is a kind of...):

angular distance (the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer)

Derivation:

longitudinal (of or relating to lines of longitude)

 Context examples 

The location is in a region of Mars with steep slopes at 3.31 degrees south latitude, 302 degrees east longitude.

(Tall boulder rolls down martian hill, lands upright, NASA)

The image is an orthographic projection centered on 67.19 degrees north latitude, 212.67 degrees west longitude.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

And then he named the latitude and longitude exactly.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He would be obliged if Professor Challenger would give the latitude and the longitude of the country in which prehistoric animals were to be found.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should then see the discovery of the longitude, the perpetual motion, the universal medicine, and many other great inventions, brought to the utmost perfection.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Nor could I more than roughly guess our latitude and longitude.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

By observing non-visible infrared light hundreds of miles above the gas giant, scientists found temperatures to be much higher in certain latitudes and longitudes in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, where the spot is located.

(Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source, NASA)

About an hour before we saw the pirates I had taken an observation, and found we were in the latitude of 46 N. and longitude of 183.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In a few cases, to be sure, the name of a place would be added, as “Offe Caraccas,” or a mere entry of latitude and longitude, as “62o 17' 20”, 19o 2' 40”.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The captain having been at Tonquin, was, in his return to England, driven north-eastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and longitude of 143.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)