(n.) Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
(n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.
(n.) The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79¡.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no statistically significant difference between the means of the measured values of the polarcardiogram and of the corresponding polar components calculated from the three scalar ECG concerning all twenty items, namely spatial magnitude, magnitudes in each plane, each longitude and latitude at the time of the spatial maximum QRS and T vectors, except alpha-longitude.
(2) Tahyna virus (Bunyaviridae, Bunyavirus, the California encephalitis complex) was isolated from Aedes communis complex mosquitoes collected at the border of the north-taiga landscape zone (in latitude 68 degrees North and longitude 33 degrees East) at the Kolsky peninsula (the Murmansk region).
(3) Between 16th and 24th day the percental frequency as well as the longitude of NZ increases.
(4) Income, magnesium and longitude were also negatively associated with mortality rates from spina bifida, hydrocephalus, other congenital abnormalities, and total stillbirth and infant death rates, but the association with magnesium was significant only for total stillbirths.
(5) A major morphological variation in the karyotypes involved the presence of seven pairs of biarmed autosomes with totally heterochromatic short arms in the populations distributed to the west of 26 degrees 57' E. To the east of this longitude, populations of this species exhibited mostly acrocentric autosomes.
(6) The male reproductive cycle of Channa gachua from fresh water tanks around Dharwad (North 15 degrees 27' latitude, East 75 degrees 01' longitude) is investigated by a) recording the gonosomatic index, every month, over a period 2 consecutive years and b) studying the histological structure of the testis during this period.
(7) this variation was also analyzed by correlation with latitude and longitude.
(8) The concentration of actin monomers in apparent equilibrium with the polymer, G(180 degrees longitude), was determined.
(9) The frequency of most of these genes was associated with longitude.
(10) Using time-lapse video recording, we showed that the contractions begin at stage 14 (the stage of the embryonic shield) and arise in the ventral region of the EVL, which is centered at 180 degrees longitude from the embryonic shield.
(11) Looking online, she discovered a star generator, "where you can type in the latitude or longitude of anywhere on Earth, and a year, so I started in 1865, and watched the skies."
(12) The test was measured at magnitude 4.9 and located at latitude 41.313 degrees north and longitude 129.101 degrees east.
(13) A longitudal study was carried out to separate the effects of treatment with diet from those of treatment with glibenclamide and phenformin on the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) plasma sugar and insulin levels in 118 patients with maturity-onset diabetes mellitus.
(14) Differences were found in crime rates, poverty, population density, racial composition, latitude, and longitude.
(15) The difference in aerobic capacity, however, may be in part due to the morphological changes engendered by training; a longitudal study would confirm this.
(16) 04:30 GMT, Latitude:32.64113, Longitude:33.56727" – around 70 miles from the coast of northern Israel and 90 miles from Gaza.
(17) Most farms with serological evidence of infection occurred in the Great Southern agricultural region (79.5%), south-east of Perth through to Albany (latitude 32 to 34 degrees S, longitude 116 to 120 degrees E), and in the Northern region (12.8%) surrounding Geraldton (latitude 29 degrees S, longitude 114 degrees E).
(18) Measurements of solar UV radiation (UVR) at Bombay, India, lattitude 18.5 North and longitude 72.5 East were recorded using Eppley UV radiometer for a 2-year period.
(19) It lies roughly between the longitudes of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and no one would dare to call either Edinburgh or Aberdeen remote.
(20) Longituding observations aided diagnostic assessment and patient management.
Megameter
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.