meridian : Idioms & Phrases

• suited to the local circumstances, capabilities, or special requirements of.

Webster 1913

• the meridian from which longitudes are reckoned. The meridian of Greenwich is the one commonly employed in calculations of longitude by geographers, and in actual practice, although in various countries other and different meridians, chiefly those which pass through the capitals of the countries, are occasionally used; as, in France, the meridian of Paris; in the United States, the meridian of Washington, etc.

Webster 1913

• noun the meridian passing through Greenwich; was internationally adopted as the earth's zero of longitude in 1884
  

WordNet

• (Public Land Survey), a line, marked by monuments, running North and South through a section of country between other more carefully established meridians called principal meridians, used for reference in surveying. U.S.

Webster 1913

• noun an imaginary line passing through both magnetic poles of the Earth
  

WordNet

• a great circle, passing through the zenith and coinciding in direction with the magnetic needle, or a line on the earth's surface having the same direction.

Webster 1913

• (Astron.), an instrument consisting of a telescope attached to a large graduated circle and so mounted that the telescope revolves like the transit instrument in a meridian plane. By it the right ascension and the declination of a star may be measured in a single observation.

Webster 1913

• (Astron.), any astronomical instrument having a telescope that rotates in a meridian plane.

Webster 1913

• a graduated circular ring of brass, in which the artificial globe is suspended and revolves.

Webster 1913

• noun a meridian that passes through the observer's zenith
  

WordNet

• noun meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)
  

WordNet

• (Astron.), the meridian from which longitude is reckoned, as the meridian of Greenwich or Washington.

Webster 1913