How to Use longitude in a Sentence

longitude

noun
Definition of longitudenext
  • The regions are on roughly the same longitude.
  • Well, all lines of longitude run through the North Pole.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2016
  • But as one gets close to the poles, lines of longitude converge and the system breaks down.
    — NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Consult the manual for your software to find out how to set the longitude of the Red Spot.
    — Geoff Gaherty, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2012
  • The lines that are already on the basketball are like lines of longitude.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 May 2018
  • The red dots mark the actual raw measured positions of the Great Red Spot in longitude (across the chart) against the date (down the chart).
    — Geoff Gaherty, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2012
  • Christ cannot be kept out of the history of man in any part of the globe, at any longitude or latitude. . .
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 July 2017
  • So that one bit isn’t going to tell you how to put the qubit, so to speak, on the globe at some definite latitude and longitude.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Meridional flow follows a pattern from north to south, or from south to north, along the Earth’s longitude line.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 17 July 2023
  • The island province is on the same longitude as Vietnam and Thailand.
    — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Very few studies of this longitude have been completed, and none at this scale.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • There is no place on our coast, the longitude of which from Greenwich is so well ascertained as Boston.
    — Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Every time a bag hits the scales, a computer records the date and time of the catch, the boat’s latitude and longitude, and of course the weight — generally around 50 pounds each bag.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Imagine the earth is covered with a checkerboard or a grid, like latitude and longitude.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • No team bases its draft on the longitude/latitude where players played in college.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The large image shows storm surge across the region, mapped onto longitude and latitude.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2013
  • One of her eight monitors displayed the latitude and longitude of the call’s origin.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Oct. 2020
  • In short order, things escalate, with 35 million kids in the next 7 degrees of longitude.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Had Duncan been born 20 years later, the latitude and longitude of his hometown might not have mattered.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2021
  • Developed by Google, the tool takes the latitude and longitude of a location and then creates a unique code that functions as a street address.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The print can mark the exact longitude and latitude of a special and sentimental place, making your room more homey.
    — Lauren Adhav, Cosmopolitan, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The most dutiful news gatherers know the longitude and latitude of their homes.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Lastly you'll be asked more specific questions like time, date, and even the latitude and longitude of the location.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Thermal calculations constrain the latitude of the ice cap, but what about the longitude?
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2016
  • By the modern definition, New Moon occurs when the Moon and Sun are at the same geocentric ecliptic longitude.
    — Fox News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Streisand says that all of the homes photographed for the project were labeled using latitude and longitude, and not by names of the owners, except for her and four other celebrities’ houses.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Sailors used them to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time and the time at the current location by reading the night sky.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
  • To astronomers, though, the full moon occurs in a single instant, when the moon is 180 degrees opposite the sun inecliptic longitude.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
  • In the 1600’s maritime navies suffered incredible losses of life and ships due to the inability to find longitude at sea.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • But unlike the Equator (0 degrees latitude), which is equidistant from the north and south poles, there is no natural basis for 0 degrees longitude.
    — Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024

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