longitude
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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
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
Using this data, researchers applied the kriging method, a well-known statistical technique, to make predictions of soil-bearing layer thickness and depth based on geographic coordinates such as latitude and longitude.
From Science Daily • May 30, 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
In the end, early modern science defeated two of the most difficult practical problems it had set itself: the calculation of the path of projectiles under real-life conditions, and the measurement of longitude.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
