MERIDIAN
\mɛɹˈɪdi͡ən], \mɛɹˈɪdiən], \m_ɛ_ɹ_ˈɪ_d_iə_n]\
Definitions of MERIDIAN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
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Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
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Midday; noon.
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Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
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A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
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A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.
By Oddity Software
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Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
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Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
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Midday; noon.
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Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
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A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
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A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.
By Noah Webster.
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Highest point reached by a heavenly body; highest point, as of success, prosperty, and the like; an imaginary circle around the earth in a north and south direction, passing through the poles.
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Meridional.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pertaining to mid-day: being on the meridian or at mid-day: raised to the highest point.
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Mid-day: the highest point, as of success: an imaginary circle on the earth's surface passing through the poles and any given place: (astr.) an imaginary circle, passing through the poles of the heavens, and the zenith of the spectator, which the sun crosses at mid-day.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to the meridian or at mid-day or to the highest point, or to the magnetic meridian. Magnetic meridian, a great circle, parallel with the direction of the magnetic needle, and passing through its poles.
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A great circle supposed to be drawn so as to pass through the poles of the earth, and the zenith and nadir of any given place, intersecting the equator at right angles, and dividing the hemisphere into eastern and western; midday; roon; the highest point.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In geog., an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth, supposed to pass through the poles and any given place, cutting the equator at right angles; in astron., a great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of the spectator which is crossed at mid-day; the brass ring surrounding a globe on which the degrees are marked-meridians are so called because they mark all places that have noon at the same instant; mid-day or noon; the highest point of anything.
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Being on the meridian or at mid-day; pert. to the highest point.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A great circle drawn from pole to pole on the surface of a spherical body and passing through a given point, of which it is said to be the m.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French] Midday; noon;— hence, the highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination;— a great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of the spectator;— an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place.
