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- Meridian - a. - Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
- Meridian - a. - Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
- Meridian - a. - Midday; noon.
- Meridian - a. - Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
- Meridian - a. - A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
- Meridian - a. - A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.
- Transit - n. - The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
- Meridian - a. - Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
- Range - v. - In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
- Southing - n. - The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian of a place.
- Declination - n. - The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
- Azimuth - n. - An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.
- Longitude - 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.