longitude meaning in English
n.
1.经度，经线 〔cf. latitude〕。
2.【天文学】黄经。 the meridian of longitude黄经圈。
3.〔戏谑语〕长，长度。
Examples
- Each point on earth is specified by geographic latitude and longitude .
地球上每一点都可以用地理纬度和经度来确定。 - Terrestrial longitude is measured in degrees east or west of the greenwich meridian .
地球的经度是被格林威治子午线向东或向西以度数来表示的。 - She still kept her lips tightly compressed, as if determined fully to ascertain her longitude and position, before she committed herself .
她依旧一言不发，仿佛打定了主意，在没有完全弄清自己的处境以前，决不随便发表意见。 - Astronomical yearbooks and calendars for amateur astronomers provide the times of the beginning of the synodic solar rotations as well as the longitudes lo .
天文年历和日历为业余天文学家提供了太阳会合自转周期的始时和经度Lo - What interested her most was the longitude line
她最感兴趣的是那条经线。