Easting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Easting is a noun meaning (cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
Meaning
(cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
More Meanings
- (nautical) A distance traveled eastward.
- A turning towards the east.
Example Sentences
It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind.
Word Forms
- eastings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include easterly, e, eastside, eastbound, eastmost, easternmost.
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