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prime meridian en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.
   • Other prime meridians were presented as candidates for the world's baseline: Jerusalem; Ferro; Kamchatka; the mid-Atlantic; the Bering Strait; and Greenwich's antimeridian. 2017, Charles W. J. Withers, Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 183:

Forms

Coordinates

antimeridian

Synonyms

zero meridian · Greenwich meridian

Translations (27)

ar خَطّ غَرِينِيتْش (reference line) · cmn 格林威治子午線 /格林威治子午线 (reference line) · ka საწყისი მერიდიანი (reference line) · nl nulmeridiaan (reference line) · de Nullmeridian (reference line) · pt meridiano primário (reference line) · hu kezdő délkör (reference line) · sv nollmeridian (reference line) · ru Гри́нвичский меридиа́н (reference line) · fi nollameridiaani (reference line) · cmn 格林尼治子午線 /格林尼治子午线 (reference line) · fr méridien d’origine (reference line) · ca meridià zero (reference line) · es meridiano cero (reference line) · vi kinh tuyến gốc (reference line) · cy prif feridian (reference line) · ka ნულოვანი მერიდიანი (reference line) · pt meridiano principal (reference line) · fr premier méridien (reference line) · cmn 本初子午線 /本初子午线 (reference line) · it meridiano zero (reference line) · ka გრინვიჩის მერიდიანი (reference line) · ar خَطّ الزَّوَال (reference line) · ar خَطّ الطُّول الرَّئِيسِيّ (reference line) · ro primul meridian (reference line) · hi प्रधान मध्याह्न रेखा (reference line) · mos bĩin-lu-tikdga (reference line)