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meridian (enc)

Meridian

Noun1.Meridian - a town in eastern Mississippi
town - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work"
Magnolia State, Mississippi, MS - a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
2.meridian - an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator; "all points on the same meridian have the same longitude"
great circle - a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center
observer's meridian - a meridian that passes through the observer's zenith
prime meridian - meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)
magnetic meridian - an imaginary line passing through both magnetic poles of the Earth
date line, dateline, International Date Line - an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian
Adj.1.meridian - of or happening at noon; "meridian hour"

 

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