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Prime meridian   /praɪm mərˈɪdiən/   Listen
Prime meridian

noun
1.
Meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England).





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"Prime meridian" Quotes from Famous Books



... south, until one morning we sighted the towering mass of Sunday Island, the principal member of the small Kermadec group, which lies nearly on the prime meridian of one hundred and eighty degrees, and but a short distance north of the extremity of New Zealand. We had long ago finished the last of our fresh provisions, fish had been very scarce, so the captain seized the opportunity to give us a run ashore, and at the same time instructed ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen


Words linked to "Prime meridian" :   line of longitude, meridian, Greenwich Meridian


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