Antimeridian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Antimeridian is a noun meaning (geography) The reference line at 180° longitude, on the opposite side of earth to the prime meridian.
Meaning
(geography) The reference line at 180° longitude, on the opposite side of earth to the prime meridian.
More Meanings
- (geography) A meridian of longitude opposite to any given meridian used as a point of reference.
Example Sentences
123° west is the antimeridian of the 57° east meridian.
Other prime meridians were presented as candidates for the world's baseline: Jersualem; Ferro; Kamchatka; the mid-Atlantic; the Bering Strait; and Greenwich's antimeridian.
The antimeridian contains your nadir and the opposite celestial pole for your hemisphere. The local meridian and the antimeridian together form the great circle simply called the meridian.
On the opposite side of the Earth from Greenwich is the antimeridian, a line of longitude that is 180° both east and west of the prime meridian. It cuts through parts of eastern Russia, the Fiji Islands and the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Word Forms
- antimeridians
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include meridian, longitude, longtitude, latitude, midheaven, antipodes.
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