11 example sentences using meridian.
Meridian used in a sentence
Meridian in a sentence as a noun
Only prime meridian, arctic circle and tropic of cancer are shown.
So the avenues are being treated as meridian lines; great circles.
Midday GMT is defined to be when the mean sun is directly over the prime meridian.
Miles based on the length of a degree at the Earth's meridian were used widely during that interval.
The unit represented a 1000 beat cycle centered around midnight on the Swiss meridian, ie. UTC+1.
Not mentioning that the nautical mile is essentially 1 minute of arc on any meridian, which is the key fact.
Meridian in a sentence as an adjective
If the avenues are closer together at the northern end of the island, then the avenues actually do behave as meridians.
There was a comment in a piece of code I was looking through once which read, "Except here universal time is actually Pacific Time, maybe they will get the prime meridian moved.
I am not a Western layman so I don't automatically deem crazy everyone who happened to be in power and at the same time to the East from certain meridian.
From Wikipedia:\n"The nautical mile is a unit of length that is approximately one minute of arc measured along any meridian.
There is nothing to differentiate the triangle of your icosahedron on the 0 meridian from its counterpart at 72, so they will all fall into the same relationship with the south pole.
Meridian definitions
the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"
a town in eastern Mississippi
See also: Meridian
an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator; "all points on the same meridian have the same longitude"
of or happening at noon; "meridian hour"
being at the best stage of development; "our manhood's prime vigor"- Robert Browning
See also: prime