Sentence examples for degree of longitude from inspiring English sources
Each degree of longitude west of Greenwich subtracts 240 seconds from Greenwich sidereal time.
Especially interesting was the conversion, because the number of feet per degree of longitude changes with latitude.
Noteworthy among the scientific methods introduced later was the use of the telescope for determining the length of a degree of longitude.
They were based entirely on magnetic directions and on map projections that assumed a degree of longitude equal to a degree of latitude.
They were based entirely on magnetic directions and map projections that assumed a degree of longitude equal to a degree of latitude.
The maximum difference was 4.29319 degrees of latitude and 0.00016 degrees of longitude, with a standard deviation of 0.76 degrees of latitude and 6.60 degree of longitude.
The Great Lakes basin spans 10 degrees of latitude and 18 degrees of longitude — set almost exactly between the Equator and the North Pole.
So Richardson broke Germany down into a series of two-dimensional boxes, each measuring three degrees of latitude by three degrees of longitude.
Crossing the Arctic, the birds pass through many degrees of longitude in a relatively short distance (far shorter, say, than when crossing the United States).
So where does this leave Antarctica, where all degrees of longitude converge Times zones sometimes have as much to do with politics as geography.
