Sentence examples for the longitude from inspiring English sources
noun
Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
He wants to win the Longitude Prize.
The winner of the Longitude Prize was announced this week.
A single step can take one from the longitude of, say, Paris, to that of Honolulu.
The Longitude prize may have its flaws but so did the world last time I looked.
The other key theme, of course, is the very obvious connection with the longitude story.
After this announcement people can submit ideas through the Longitude Prize website.
Photograph: Jessica Bland 11.41am BST Importantly, the Longitude Prize 2014 is open to everyone, worldwide.
The draft criteria for the Longitude Prize are now available as a consultation document.
Navigation satellites give cartographers the longitude, latitude and elevation of just about any place on earth.
And it didn't have to do with the latitude and the longitude of where I was.
After three saroses, or 54 years and about a month, the longitude is repeated.
