Longitude
in example sentence
There the captain fixed his position and used a chronometer to calculate his
longitude
, which he double-checked against his previous observations of hour angles.
More example sentences with word longitude
And when you plot those friendship links by their latitude and longitude, it literally draws a map of the world.
We knew we wanted something very precise, but GPS coordinates, latitude and longitude, were just too complicated.
So it's like the equator or the lines of
longitude.
That time, when compared to the local solar noon, could be used to determine current
longitude.
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