longitude
Meaning of longitude
noun
- the angular distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich meridian, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
at a longitude of 2° W
lines of longitude
late Middle English (also denoting length and tallness): from Latin longitudo, from longus ‘long’.
Information about longitude
- It is a name.
- The plural form of longitude is: longitudes.
- Languages in which longitude is used:
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Hyphenation of longitude
lon-gi-tude
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- longitude is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of longitude
- Spanish: longitud
- French: longitude
- Italian: longitudine
- Portuguese: longitude
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