meridian

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So the avenues are being treated as meridian lines; great circles.

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Quick take

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"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of meridian gathered in one view.

noun

a town in eastern Mississippi

noun

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for meridian.

noun

a town in eastern Mississippi

noun

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"

adjective

of or happening at noon; "meridian hour"

adjective

being at the best stage of development; "our manhood's prime vigor"- Robert Browning

Example sentences

So the avenues are being treated as meridian lines; great circles.

Only prime meridian, arctic circle and tropic of cancer are shown.

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.

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.