Noun
longitude (countable and uncountable, plural longitudes)
- (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
- Coordinate term: latitude
2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
- (geography, astronomy) Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
- Synonym: meridian
- (archaic) Length.
1831, Francis Griffin, “Griffin's Remains”, in The American Quarterly Review, volume 10, page 504:His shoulders are remarkably sloping, giving an appearance of great longitude to his neck.
Translations
imaginary line through North Pole and South Pole
- Asturian: llonxitú f
- Bashkir: оҙонлок (oźonlok)
- Bulgarian: меридиан (bg) m (meridian)
- Catalan: longitud (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 經線/经线 (zh) (jīngxiàn)
- Danish: længdegrad (da) c, meridian (da) c
- Dutch: lengtegraad (nl) m, meridiaan (nl) m
- Esperanto: longitudo
- Finnish: pituuspiiri (fi), meridiaani (fi), longitudi (fi)
- French: longitude (fr) f
- Galician: lonxitude (gl) f
- Georgian: გრძედი (grʒedi), მერიდიანი (meridiani)
- German: geographische Länge f, Längengrad (de) n
- Greek: μήκος (el) n (míkos), γεωγραφικό μήκος n (geografikó míkos), παράλληλοι (el) m pl (parálliloi)
- Ido: longitudo (io)
- Italian: longitudine (it) f
- Japanese: 経線 (ja) (けいせん, keisen)
- Korean: 경선 (ko) (gyeongseon)
- Macedonian: меридија́н m (meridiján), до́лжина f (dólžina)
- Malay: garisan bujur
- Manx: dowan-liurid
- Maori: ahopou
- Moore: bĩn-lugsi
- Polish: południk (pl) m
- Portuguese: longitude (pt) f
- Russian: меридиа́н (ru) m (meridián), долгота́ (ru) f (dolgotá)
- Scottish Gaelic: domhan-fhad m
- Spanish: longitud (es) f
- Swedish: geografisk längd (sv) c, längdgrad (sv) c
- Tagalog: antasligid
- Telugu: రేఖాంశము (te) (rēkhāṁśamu)
- Turkish: boylam (tr)
- Welsh: hydred m
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
- Hyphenation: lon‧gi‧tu‧de