prime meridian

Example Sentences

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No one’s contemplating, as Conrad suggested in “The Secret Agent,” blowing up the prime meridian, in the form of the Greenwich Observatory.

From New York Times

The Distracted Globe was located at the western-hemisphere intersection of the Boulevard and the Avenue, two brightly lit streets that stretched completely around the planet along its equator and prime meridian.

From Literature

And you’re like, “No, I need to brush my teeth and eat this Jidori Chicken dinner before we cross some sort of prime meridian so I get some normal sleep.”

From New York Times

In the 1980s, new satellite data helped reorient the prime meridian 334 feet to the east, where it now runs through a park.

From New York Times

Oxford, located one degree, 15 minutes and 24 seconds west of the prime meridian at Greenwich, is technically 5 minutes and 2 seconds behind.

From Washington Post