What is "meridians"

Usage examples of "meridians".

For this reason from the shores of Europe to those of the Americas the maps give meridians that are fairly reliable.

He had lost his only friend, he was himself lost on the farthest of meridians, and could feel no consolation unless he saw a bird that perhaps had fluttered only in the head of Father Caspar!

Mercator makes his meridians run parallel to each other, but everyone knows that meridians are not parallels like latitudes are.

Landmasses in the far north and south are exaggerated in size because the parallels and meridians are distended so that the grid of parallel lines and right angles can be preserved.

Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads’ goblets.

The nose of the plane, then, is a blunt dome of curving struts, like the meridians and parallels of a globe, the trapezoids between them filled with sturdy panes of glass.

The greenhouse disintegrates around him, the meridians and parallels crumpling and rending which isn't quite as bad as it sounds since the body of the plane is suddenly filled with flames.

Mars meridians ranged from about thirty-six mites at the equator to zero miles at the poles.

And he accelerated to fifteen meridians per hour, close to top speed, going down the volcanic slope and across the monstrous lava plain to the southeast.