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longitude

[lon-ji-tood, -tyood] / ˈlɒn dʒɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /




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The globe had been cut in half while he worked on it, and he held his breath as he put the two sides together—praying that the countries, latitude and longitude lines would match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

"This technique is really the only one that can probe all three dimensions at once: latitude, longitude and altitude," said the paper's co-lead author Megan Weiner Mansfield, an assistant professor of astronomy at UMD.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

At 105 degrees West longitude, an active satellite might see a piece of junk come within 50km of its position up to four times a day.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024

But it is “rarely an issue,” he said, because 911 calls show the latitude and longitude of the caller, and dispatchers use Rapid Deploy, which pings cellphone locations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Currently, the only existing STM is a prototype—known as STM1—located at latitude 39.605829 and longitude -75.718580, in the Spatial Teleportation Laboratory at the University of Delaware.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly