The word "meridian" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to either a geographical location (a line of longitude) or an important moment of time. For example, "At the meridian of the day, the sun was still shining brightly."
On top of the hill is the Royal Observatory, home to Greenwich Mean Time, where you can stand on the meridian line, the dividing point between Earth's east and west hemispheres.
The drawing shows the correct 23° tilt of Earth's rotation axis, but the edge of the shadow cast by the sun is incorrectly drawn along a meridian.
This is the blow that begins "Enon", a beautifully melancholic new novel by Paul Harding (pictured).In this section Blood meridian A costly, brutal failure Place and memory Translating Herodotus Iridescence Reprints"Most men in my family make widows of their wives and orphans of their children," observes Charlie Crosby, the book's unfortunate narrator.
It is home to the Royal Observatory, through which the Greenwich meridian runs.
Tying it to the meridian, or any other natural benchmark, proved intractable.
It all became much more arduous, and more glorious.In this section Blood meridian Pilfered piles Mission unaccomplished Marching through Georgia Bowing to the longbow Deep trouble Reprints Related items Correction: AgincourtOct 27th 2005Even for such a limited campaign, the planning had to be extraordinary.
The Selma-to-Meridian stretch of US-80, the Chattanooga-to-Nashville bit on I-24 and almost anywhere in rural West Virginia are current favourites.
Junk-touching notwithstanding, driving lets me do my job; flying hinders me.Corrections: The original version of this post referred to the Selma-to-Meridian section of I-80 and the Chattanooga-to-Nashville section of I-75.
Jonathan Corpina, a stock trader at Meridian Equity Partners on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, said that he had many clients calling him "looking for answers and explanations because they can't get through to the Nasdaq on the phone".
NYPD blues Unlucky strikes For richer, for poorer Demolition derby Reprints Related items On the campaign trail: Primary colourApr 3rd 2008 John McCain's obstacles: No country for old menFeb 28th 2008On Monday, the presumed Republican nominee made a speech in Meridian, Mississippi, where he once trained naval fighter pilots.
The so-called Meridian Hall, created to verify the accuracy of the calendar Pope Gregory XIII promulgated in 1582, is in the Vatican Secret Archives, which hold some 10m documents stored by the papacy over the past 1,200 years.The name is a misleading anachronism that dates from when secret meant private ("secretary" has the same derivation).
