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longitude

noun as in situation

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The asteroid can be best seen at longitudes in Africa and Europe, but stargazers in North America might be able to catch a glimpse around dusk.

Users can add custom notes, latitude and longitude coordinates, or other data points to describe the image.

It lived at 0 degrees both latitude and longitude, a point known as “Null Island” by geocoders because it represents data that is empty, or null.

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The tissue first folded itself into a spheroid with its fibers forming a pattern like lines of longitude on Earth, which are parallel near the equator but sharply change orientation as they converge at the North and South poles.

Rattray wouldn’t know it yet, but when he switched his computer on to check on her progress, he would find Serenity at almost precisely the longitude of her final destination in Farquhar Atoll.

The longitude between Queens and the Kremlin gave Channel One some latitude.

She likes to use "grand words" like latitude and longitude; her biggest fear is to appear "ignorant."

Its habitat in Australia is known to extend as wide as twenty-four degrees of latitude, and twenty-six degrees of longitude.

The longitude of the south-west end of this island is by Captain Flinders' observation in 150 degrees 13 minutes East.

Croton quadripartitum, Labill., was observed in longitude 148 degrees.

It was seen in the latitude and longitude of an island visited by Drake, marked in the old charts.

The late Board of Longitude was another source of patronage, which, although now abolished, it may be useful to hint at.

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On this page you'll find 135 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to longitude, such as: breadth, diameter, dimension, duration, height, and limit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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