Sentence examples for * longitude from inspiring English sources

* The difference in longitude of two places is equal to the difference in their local times.

16 min. N., longitude 50 deg.

He wants to win the Longitude Prize.

This Watch Knows Longitude and Latitude.

Simple longitude could also be key.

The Commissioners of Longitude were not known as the Board of Longitude until around the 1760s.

The new Longitude Prize has nothing to do with longitude: that particular problem is long since solved.

Yet it has a Longitude Committee that, like the original Board of Longitude, includes the Astronomer Royal.

The winner of the Longitude Prize was announced this week.

For more on the longitude story, see Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt, Finding Longitude (published by Collins on 19 June).

The 40th meridian, for example, has a longitude of 40° E or 40° W. See latitude and longitude.