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prime meridian

noun

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  1. The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which…

    The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.

    • Other prime meridians were presented as candidates for the world's baseline: Jerusalem; Ferro; Kamchatka; the mid-Atlantic; the Bering Strait; and Greenwich's antimeridian.

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