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OBSERVER'S MERIDIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does observer's meridian mean?
• OBSERVER'S MERIDIAN (noun)
The noun OBSERVER'S MERIDIAN has 1 sense:
1. a meridian that passes through the observer's zenith
Familiarity information: OBSERVER'S MERIDIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A meridian that passes through the observer's zenith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("observer's meridian" is a kind of...):
line of longitude; meridian (an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator)
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