méridien — meaning in English
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English meaning
- meridian noun An imaginary line running from the North Pole to the South Pole, used to measure longitude.
Senses
méridien is used for these senses in English:
- meridian (also, geography) In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude. [from 14th c.]
meridian — full definition
- noun An imaginary line running from the North Pole to the South Pole, used to measure longitude.
- noun The highest or most successful point of something; its peak.
- noun In traditional Chinese medicine, one of the pathways along which life energy (qi) is said to flow through the body.
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