Skip to main content

longitude

Hindi longitude का अर्थ हिंदी में
Noun
  • लम्बाई
  • मध्याह्न रेखा से पूर्वी वा पश्चिमी दूरी
  • देशान्तर
  • देशांतर
  • देशान्तर रेखा
English longitude meaning in English  •  longitude का अर्थ अंग्रेजी में
Noun
  • 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.
  • 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 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°.
Advertisement