longitude

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• ⇰ Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from <contr>breadth</contr> or <contr>thickness</contr>; <as>as, the <ex>longitude</ex> of a room</as>; 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>as, the <ex>longitude</ex> of Capella is 79&deg;</as>.