Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet LONGITUDE

Definition av LONGITUDE

1. longitud, vinkelavstånd från en storcirkel genom en vald meridian på en sfär, (I geografi: Greenwichmeridianen, i geometri: skärningen mellan xz-planet och sfären)

Exempel på hur man kan använda LONGITUDE i en mening

• It rises at about 67°N latitude and 171°E longitude in the Anadyr Highlands, near the headwaters of the Maly Anyuy, flows southwest receiving the waters of the rivers Yablon and Yeropol, turns east around the Shchuchy Range and passes Markvovo and the old site of Anadyrsk, turns north and east and receives the Mayn from the south, thereby encircling the Lebediny Zakaznik, turns northeast to receive the Belaya from the north in the Parapol-Belsky Lowlands, then past Ust-Belaya it turns southeast into the Anadyr Lowlands past the Ust-Tanyurer Zakaznik and receives the Tanyurer from the north.
• The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, longitude, terrain, altitude, land use and nearby water bodies and their currents.
• The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project that aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.
• 1 longitude, Estonia lies on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea on the level northwestern part of the rising East European Platform.
• In any ellipsoid, the length of a degree of longitude at the equator is exactly 60 geographical miles.
• India is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north (the mainland) to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude.
• Meridians are imaginary semicircular lines running from pole to pole that connect points with the same longitude.
• Lesotho is a country in Southern Africa, located at around 29°30' south latitude and 28°30' east longitude.
• In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude.
• Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean roughly centered on 78° north latitude and 20° east longitude.
• In monoskiing, the user stands with feet inline with direction of travel (facing tip of monoski/downhill) (parallel to long axis of board), whereas in snowboarding, users stand with feet transverse (more or less) to the longitude of the board.
• Tuvalu is composed of three reef islands and six atolls spread out between the latitude of 5° and 10° south and between the longitude of 176° and 180°.
• Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
• It is located in the Southern Hemisphere on the Atlantic seaboard of South America between 53 and 58 west longitude and 30 and 35 south latitude.
• The zodiac is divided along the ecliptic into 12 equal parts, called "signs", each occupying 30° of celestial longitude.
• January 1 – The first annual volume of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gives navigators the means to find longitude at sea, using tables of lunar distance.
• January 24 – Under the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas, Pope Julius II sets the line of demarcation in the New World between Spain's and Portugal's territory as a line of longitude 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands.
• Null Island, defined as the intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude), is in the gulf.
• A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude.
• In 1958, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined the galactic coordinate system in reference to radio observations of galactic neutral hydrogen through the hydrogen line, changing the definition of the Galactic longitude by 32° and the latitude by 1.

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