Sentence examples for the longitudes from inspiring English sources
noun
Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
It lies roughly between the longitudes of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and no one would dare to call either Edinburgh or Aberdeen remote.
Astrologers, then, cast a horoscope by first determining for the given moment and locality the boundaries of the 12 places and the longitudes and latitudes of the seven planets.
In the case of Wikitude, the AR software works out the longitudes and latitudes of objects in the camera's field of view so that they can be tagged accordingly, he says.Precisely which items in the real world are labelled varies from one AR application to another.
Meanwhile, he had reentered the Survey in 1861 as a computing aide to his father, who had undertaken the task of determining, from observations of lunar occultations of the Pleiades, the longitudes of American survey points with respect to European ones.
Black dashed lines indicate the longitudes used for the profiles.
Daily differences in the peak-load times of neighboring countries commonly occur for differences in the longitudes of their location.
He wants to win the Longitude Prize.
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 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.
