Sentence examples for The longitudes from inspiring English sources
noun
Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
The longitudes of ascending nodes h specify the orientation of the triple on the sky, and not the relative orientation.
The longitudes in the file are in positive degrees from the prime meridian, so subtracting 360 from them will translate them to a similar range of values as the ones given for the stations.
The longitudes of the flux patches and the large seismic shear velocity structures seem to be correlated (Gubbins 2003), although some patches exhibit significant mobility (Amit et al. 2011b; Korte and Holme 2010).
The longitudes of physical features on Venus are expressed relative to its prime meridian.
The longitudes of the Io Europa and Europa Ganymede conjunctions change with the same rate, making the triple conjunctions impossible.
The centroid longitude is computed by averaging the longitudes.
Calculate the longitude offset due to longitude.
He wants to win the Longitude Prize.
The winner of the Longitude Prize was announced this week.
Should we give the Longitude prize some latitude?
For more on the longitude story, see Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt, Finding Longitude (published by Collins on 19 June).
