GREENWICH MERIDIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The meridian passing through Greenwich; was internationally adopted as the earth's zero of longitude in 1884

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

prime meridian (meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England))

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