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GREENWICH MERIDIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Greenwich Meridian mean?
• GREENWICH MERIDIAN (noun)
The noun GREENWICH MERIDIAN has 1 sense:
1. the meridian passing through Greenwich; was internationally adopted as the earth's zero of longitude in 1884
Familiarity information: GREENWICH MERIDIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The meridian passing through Greenwich; was internationally adopted as the earth's zero of longitude in 1884
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
prime meridian (meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England))
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