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prime meridian |
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prime meridian, meridian that is designated zero degree (0°) longitude, from which all other longitudes are measured. By international convention, it passes through the original site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England; for this reason, it is sometimes called the Greenwich meridian. Universal time universal time (UT), the international time standard common to every place in the world, it nominally reflects the mean solar time along the earth's prime meridian (renumbered to equate to civil time ). ..... Click the link for more information. , the standard basis for determining time throughout the world, is civil time civil time, local time based on universal time . Civil time may be formally defined as mean solar time plus 12 hr; the civil day begins at midnight, while the mean solar day begins at noon. ..... Click the link for more information. measured at the prime meridian. prime meridian the 0° meridian from which the other meridians or lines of longitude are calculated, usually taken to pass through Greenwich prime meridian [′prīm mə‚rid·ē·ən] (geodesy) The meridian of longitude 0°, used as the origin for measurement of longitude; the meridian of Greenwich, England, is almost universally used for this purpose. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The site is intersected by the Nussbaum Pathway, with its Missing Pictures Gallery, linking the villa with the new gallery, crossing a Garden of the Future and continuing beyond the site boundary to cross a meridian line to Auschwitz. MarineMax will carry the Meridian line in all markets east of the Rockies. MAMI currently sells 3 meridian lines, Meridian II, Meridian-plus, and Meridian-portable; they expect to sell ABR-2000, an automatic whole body-screening device and McPulse, a pulse waveform analyzer in second half of this year in the US market when they obtain FDA approval. |
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