单词 | longtitude |
释义 | longtituden. nonstandard. = longitude n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > longitude longitudec1400 longtitude1578 length1581 long1693 1578 W. Bourne Treasure for Traueilers ii. ii. f. 5 Then I knowing the Longtitude of the Citie of London for to bee 19. degrees and 54. minutes, then I doe seeke the Langtitude of Hierusalem. 1658 J. Collins Sector on Quadrant 188 So is the Versed sine of the Complement of the difference of Longtitude to 180 d. 1749 Penny London Post 19 Apr. Raphael Levy, a Jew and a great Mathematician, who pretends to have found out the method of determining the Longtitude at Sea, sets out for London the Day after Tomorrow, to discover his Invention to the Royal Society. 1836 M. Crotty 4th Let. to Murray 8 The coadjutor Bishop..proclaimed them [sc. the whole Roman Catholic population of the town and parish] rebels and usurpers, by whole circles of latitude and longtitude. 1859 C. McAllister Rep. Circuit Court U.S. Districts Calif. 140 The line of longtitude would, if adopted, traverse the greatest distance which at any point intervenes between the starting point and the creek. 1898 Augustana Jrnl. (Augustana Coll., Illinois) 1 Jan. 8/1 The birth of Christ is the Greenwich from which all the longtitudes of time are reckoned. 1969 Jrnl. Inst. Navigation 22 417 An error of 1 or 2 in the fifth decimal of the logarithms..can lead to errors of 20 or even 30 miles in longtitude. 2008 Daily Sitka (Alaska) Sentinel 4 Mar. 4/4 Valid recovery information—date of recovery and precise latitude and longtitude. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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