- Surround - to write or engrave around. - To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to
surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. - To draw a line around so as to touch at certain
points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.
- Fold up - To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll,
as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or
around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.
- Great circle of earth - Hemisphere divider - Imaginary circle around our planet - Imaginary circle around the Earth - Imaginary circle around the Earth's greatest diameter - Imaginary global circle - Imaginary line around Earth
- 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¡.