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Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..

Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing..

Easting :: Easting (n.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

Meridian :: Meridian (a.) Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course..

Antemeridian :: Antemeridian (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m..

Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope..

Magnetical :: Magnetical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian..

Range :: Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..

Antoecians :: Antoecians (n. pl) Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator..

Declination :: Declination (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south..

Meridian :: Meridian (a.) Midday; noon.

Magnetic :: Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian..

Postmeridian :: Postmeridian (a.) Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.).

Meridional :: Meridional (a.) Of or pertaining to the meridian.

Meridionally :: Meridionally (adv.) In the direction of the meridian.

Meridian :: Meridian (a.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.

Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere..

Rhumb :: Rhumb (n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic..

Longitude :: Longitude (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich..

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