- at 135 degrees from north - Compass direction - The point of the compass equally distant from the south
and the east; the southeast part or region. - Of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or
coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind.
- The point between the north and east, at an equal
distance from each; the northeast part or region. - Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the
northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a
northeast wind. - Toward the northeast.
- An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when
they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135
degrees, distant from each other.
- Angular distance east or west - Line of measure around the Earth - Line on map - Length; measure or distance along the longest line; --
distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room;
rare now, except in a humorous sense. - 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. - The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal
equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic
passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as,
the longitude of Capella is 79¡.
- A stopping or standing still of the sun. - The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest
from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign
Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the
summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; --
so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward
or southward motion. - The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or
solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust.
in Appendix.
- A sport - Ball/stick game - Game - Game to see Diana in lace? - Native Americans' game - Team game - Team game originally played by North American Indians
- Latitude, ... of Cancer - Line dividing the torrid and temperate zones - Line of latitude - Line on map - Of Hot Regions - Parallel of latitude - Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from
atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance
slightly soluble in water.