meridian

The route from New York to Istanbul to Santiago would have tacked on two unnecessary crossings of the prime meridian.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024

Since early September, they had logged nearly 12,000 miles aboard the Offshore Surveyor, crisscrossing the equator near the 180th meridian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

The line, which for centuries has fallen roughly along the 100th meridian, has moved east by about 140 miles since the late 1800s.

From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023

"It seems a little incriminating," he said, explaining that he had pulled it out of a grassy meridian and torn it up.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2022

Then, when the sun passed the meridian, we put another marker on the afternoon stone-shadow.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

“A central credo in TCM is that blockages in meridians lead to imbalances in health, including illness or pain,” Ko said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians," Ishmael imagines Queequeg saying at one point in the novel.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021

Acupuncture’s specialized needle placements restore the balance of yin and yang by reducing disruptions along the meridians, improving the flow of qi and promoting healing.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021

The terrestrial system of latitude and longitude makes use of the great circles called meridians.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

She felt the meridians of energy springing back like strings snapping into position; it made her skin feel red, chapped, as though she had been scoured by a dry wind.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo