longitude
US: /ˈɫɑndʒəˌtud/
UK: /lˈɒndʒɪtjˌuːd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
longitude /'lɔndʤitju:d/- danh từ
- (địa lý,ddịa chất) độ kinh
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun[U] (abbreviation long.) the distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich MERIDIAN, measured in degrees: the longitude of the island
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Collocation
ADJ.
calculate, determine
PREP.
at (a) ~
The town is at longitude 28° west.
PHRASES
a line of longitude
This line of longitude cuts through the jungle.
Concise dictionary
longitudes+the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
