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Ushakov's dictionary

meridian

meridia n, meridian, husband. (lat. meridianus, letters. midday). In geography: an imaginary circular line passing through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator at right angles. Earth meridian. The first meridian divides the earth into east and app. hemisphere.

| In astronomy: an imaginary circle passing through the poles of the world.

Naval Dictionary

meridian

1) geographical - the line of intersection of the surface of the earth's ellipsoid with a plane passing through the North and South geographic poles. Each meridian has the same longitude. The geographic meridian passing through the observation point is called the observer's meridian.

2) The celestial meridian is a large circle of the celestial sphere passing through the poles of the world.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language (Alabugin)

meridian

A, m.

An imaginary circular line running through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator at right angles.

* Prime Meridian. *

|| adj. meridian, th, th and meridional, th, th.

* Meridian circle. Meridional direction. *

A short dictionary of operational-tactical and general military terms

meridian

the line of intersection of the earth's surface with a vertical plane passing through a given point and the earth's axis. M. in combination with parallels (lines of intersection of the earth's surface by planes parallel to the section along the equator) form a degree network of the globe, the main lines of which are the Greenwich (initial) M. and the equator.

encyclopedic Dictionary

meridian

(from Lat. meridianus - midday) geographical, a line of section of the surface of the globe by a plane drawn through any point on the earth's surface and the axis of rotation of the Earth. Initial meridian - the meridian from which the geographic longitude is calculated; in international practice, Greenwich is adopted as the initial meridian.

Ozhegov Dictionary

meridian

MERIDI A H, a, m. An imaginary line passing through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator. Geographic m. Initial m. (the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory in Great Britain, from which the geographic longitude is conventionally calculated).

Heavenly meridian(special) a large circle of the celestial sphere passing through the zenith and the poles of the world.

| adj. meridian, oh, oh and meridional, oh, oh. Meridian circle (astronomical instrument). Meridional time.

Efremova's Dictionary

meridian

m.
An imaginary closed curved line passing through the poles of the globe and below
crossing the equator at right angles (in geography).

Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Dal Vladimir

meridian

m. midday, an imaginary large circle in the sky (that is, the plane of which passes through the center of the earth) through the poles, perpendicular to the equinox, and the corresponding circle on the earth's surface.

Usually, they mean only the floor or even a quarter of the circle of this, namely the part passing through the crown (zenith) of the observer or area. The sun rolls across the midday, and coming on it, gives each place consecutively noon. The first meridian, from which the longitude of the place is considered, is taken at will: Fero, Grinich, Paris, etc. Meridian, midday, related to the meridian. -th height of the sun, noon, highest. - a new line, a line drawn on a board set on a level, in the direction of a midday, for example, for a sundial, for checking compasses; this line points to the north and south. circle, an astronomical projectile set in the direction of the meridian.

MERIDIAN

MERIDIAN

|| In astronomy: an imaginary circle passing through the poles of the world.

Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary... D.N. Ushakov. 1935-1940.

See what "MERIDIAN" is in other dictionaries:

- (lat., from meridies noon). An imaginary circle in the sky, passing through both poles and dividing the visible firmament into two parts: the east and west, as well as the corresponding circle on the earth's surface. Dictionary of foreign words included in ... ... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language

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- (from lat. meridianus midday) the geographical line of the section of the surface of the globe by a plane drawn through any point on the earth's surface and the axis of rotation of the earth. Meridian is the prime meridian from which longitude is calculated ... ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

1) the geographic line of intersection of the surface of the earth's ellipsoid with a plane passing through the North and South geographic poles. Each meridian has the same longitude. The geographic meridian passing through the observation point ... ... Marine dictionary

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- (from the Latin meridianus noon) geographical, a line of section of the surface of the globe by a plane drawn through some point on the earth's surface and the axis of rotation of the Earth. For the initial meridian, from which the geographical ... Modern encyclopedia

MERIDIAN, ah, husband. An imaginary line passing through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator. Geographic m. Initial m. (The meridian of the Greenwich Observatory in Great Britain, from which the geographic longitude is conventionally calculated). ... ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

A line, or giant circle, crossing at right angles to latitude (parallel) and passing through the North and South Poles. The meridians make up half of the Earth's coordinate grid (the other half is formed by parallels) and are used to determine ... ... Geographical encyclopedia

Books

• Silver Meridian, Flora Ollomouc. The novel of the young prose writer and translator Flora Ollomouc "Silver Meridian" is unique in composition, historical coverage and, most importantly, will cause undoubted interest by your involvement in one ...
• Engineer Irasov's Meridian, Boris Tartakovsky. Most of Boris Tartakovsky's works were written about children and for children, and were widely popular in the USSR, the story "The Meridian of Engineer Irasov" is one of ...

meaning, definition of a word

MERIDIAN, -a, m. An imaginary line passing through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator. Geographic m. Initial m. (The meridian of the Greenwich Observatory in Great Britain, from which the geographic longitude is conventionally calculated). * Heavenly meridian (special) - a large circle of the celestial sphere passing through the zenith and the poles of the world. II app. meridian, th, th and meridian, th, th. Meridian circle (astronomical instrument). Meridional time.

Morphology

• Noun, inanimate, masculine

Books

... by alists, and by persons who own his technique. In this book, you can get acquainted with the main classical meridians, as well as learn in detail other life meridians in the technique of Chinese t ...

“... - Father, - answered Willie, - I was still very lucky ... But the French have become so insolent that tomorrow they can be expected even in our quiet Altona ... I have to run! - Where? - Only to Russia, because only this country is capable of giving me peace, only it can frighten Napoleon ... So Wilhelm Struve, the son of the Altonian teacher, ended up in Russia, where he began to be called Vasily Yakovlevich. Nothing has been decided in his fate yet ... "

In our time, the hectic pace of life increases the stress on the nervous system. Muscle inactivity and nervous overload have a detrimental effect on human health. Physical activity, sports, and massage help to increase physical activity, relieve nervous tension. This book is devoted to several types of vital meridians, ways of influencing them.

… Data on biologically active points and meridians. Meridians are divided into Yang and Yin. The doctrine of two opposite principles, yin and yang, constitutes the ideological basis of ancient Chinese medicine ...

... new and at the same time entertaining information about our planet. Where is the equator line? What is a meridian? How are coral reefs formed, and how are caves? What is the difference between a globe and a geographical map? ...

Words that are close in meaning

• LENGTH, -y, pl. - from, - from, - from, well. 1. see long. 2. Geographic coordinate that determines the position of points on the surface of the Earth ...

meridian

m. midday, an imaginary large circle in the sky (that is, the plane of which passes through the center of the earth) through the poles, perpendicular to the equinox, and the corresponding circle on the earth's surface.

Usually, they mean only the floor or even a quarter of the circle of this, namely the part passing through the crown (zenith) of the observer or area. The sun rolls across the midday, and coming on it, gives each place consecutively noon. The first meridian, from which the longitude of the place is considered, is taken at will: Fero, Grinich, Paris, etc. Meridian, midday, related to the meridian. -th height of the sun, noon, highest. - a new line, a line drawn on a board set on a level, in the direction of a midday, for example, for a sundial, for checking compasses; this line points to the north and south. circle, an astronomical projectile set in the direction of the meridian.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov

meridian

meridian, m. (Latin meridianus, literally midday). In geography: an imaginary circular line passing through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator at right angles. Earth meridian. The first meridian divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres.

In astronomy: an imaginary circle passing through the poles of the world.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I.Ozhegov, N.Yu.Shvedova.

meridian

A, m. An imaginary line passing through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator. Geographic m. Initial m. (The meridian of the Greenwich Observatory in Great Britain, from which the geographic longitude is conventionally calculated). * Heavenly meridian (special) - a large circle of the celestial sphere passing through the zenith and the poles of the world.

adj. meridian, th, th and meridian, th, th. Meridian circle (astronomical instrument). Meridional time.

New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova.

meridian

m. An imaginary closed curved line passing through the poles of the globe and crossing the equator at right angles (in geography).

Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998

meridian

MERIDIAN is a celestial large circle of the celestial sphere passing through the poles of the world, zenith and nadir.

meridian

MERIDIAN (from Lat. Meridianus - midday) is a geographical line of section of the surface of the globe by a plane drawn through any point on the earth's surface and the axis of rotation of the Earth. Initial meridian - the meridian from which the geographic longitude is calculated; in international practice, Greenwich is adopted as the initial meridian.

Meridian

Meridian- a term used in geography and astronomy, denoting a line of section of a surface by a plane passing through an axis of rotation or symmetry.

Meridian (acupuncture)

Meridian (- channel network, channel network) - according to the pre-scientific metaphysical concepts of traditional Chinese medicine - the area of ​​energy circulation qi in a living body. Meridian is one of the basic concepts in zhen-chiu.

Meridian (song club)

Club of fans of the author's song "Meridian"- one of the oldest amateur song clubs in St. Petersburg. Today "Meridian" unites about a hundred authors, performers, fans of the author's song of various ages and professions.

Meridian (Idaho)

Meridian is a city in Ada County, Idaho.

Meridian (airline)

Meridian Airlines- one of the first Russian airlines specializing in organizing and performing VIP-class air transportation. Full name - Closed Joint Stock Company "Airline" Meridian "... The airline's office is located in Moscow.

Meridian (spacecraft)

"Meridian"(GUKOS index - 14F112) - a series of Russian dual-purpose communication satellites developed by JSC ISS by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The Meridian spacecraft is launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage.

Meridian (disambiguation)

Meridian:

• Meridian - in geography, a line of section of the surface of the globe by a plane drawn through any point on the earth's surface and the axis of rotation of the Earth.
• Meridian - in astronomy, a large circle of the celestial sphere passing through the poles of the world, zenith and nadir.
• Meridian is an energy channel in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Meridian (road)

Highway Meridian- a large street in Chelyabinsk, located in the southern and central parts of the city. It got its name from the direction. Passes along the railway of the Troitsky and Ufalei directions from Troitsky tract to Mechanical street. The central part of Meridian is interrupted by Rozhdestvensky Street. The length of the southern part is 9.5 km, and the northern part is 5 km. Intersections with major streets (Dzerzhinsky, Truda, Lenin Avenue, Pobedy Avenue) are made in the form of bridges and interchanges.

In 2010, road works were carried out on Meridian. In the central part, a two-level interchange was built, which made it possible to connect both parts of the Meridian with Rozhdestvensky Street and Kopeyskoye Highway, which was supposed to provide continuous traffic with a capacity of 10 thousand cars per hour, but did not reach the design capacity due to the old railway bridge ...
There are 1.5 lanes under this bridge in each direction. A bottleneck is formed in the indicated place, which does not allow this node to reach the planned throughput. All the media periodically circulate the myth that this denouement fully meets all needs. On October 8, 2010 the first stage of the interchange was commissioned. In the northern part of Meridian, an overpass has been built across the railway tracks to Novomekhanicheskaya Street.

In 2011, work began on the construction of an interchange at the intersection with Truda Street. Previously, the streets were divorced at different levels without crossing. Due to the expected increase in traffic on the street. Labor (in the future, it will be connected with the village of Churilovo), it became necessary to organize additional trips to it from Meridian. Also, a planned reconstruction of the road bridge was necessary, the movement under which is carried out in one row in each direction. The expected completion date for construction is 2012-2013.

Meridian (Mississippi)

Meridian is the sixth largest city in the state of Mississippi. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the main city of the Meridian-Mississippi Micro-Political Statistical Area. Along the major highways, Meridian is 150 kilometers east of Jackson, Mississippi; 248 kilometers west of Birmingham, Alabama; 325 km northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana; 372 kilometers southeast of Memphis, Tennessee.

Examples of the use of the word meridian in literature.

A barrier of primitive rocks two thousand five hundred kilometers long from seventy-second to ninety-fifth meridian covers two provinces - Agra and Calcutta, two kingdoms - Bhutan and Nepal - a chain of mountains, the average height of which is one third higher than the peak of Mont Blanc.

At this time, - and here Mazarin paused again, straightening his mustache again, and then joining his palms, as if to focus and at the same time to appeal to heaven for support, - at this time we learned that the English physician Dr. Byrd is experiencing a new and ingenious way of calculating meridian, with the use of Sympathetic Powder.

It was as if someone from Europe, every day at one o'clock in the afternoon in the Canary Islands, or at the appointed hour on some other meridian, sent a signal that Byrd received by unknown means in a secret location.

And it exists among pilots and flight attendants of jet aircraft, covering thousands and thousands of kilometers in a matter of hours, crossing dozens meridians, and then forced to live for several days with a regime shift of several hours, then, having overcome several time zones again, live for several days, shifting the regime to the other side.

We set up buoy stations on the meridian with a length of about five hundred kilometers.

In the hyperopic eye, hyperopia increases in one or all meridians.

In these parts, any distances were measured in relation to the railway, as from Greenwich meridian.

Under such circumstances, the new zero meridian, drawn from the new North Pole, will pass through Dublin in Ireland, through Paris in France, through Palermo in Sicily, along the Gulf of Greater Sirte off the coast of Tripolitania, then through Obeid in Darfur, through the Kilimanjaro mountain range, through Madagascar, Kerguelen island in the southern part Pacific Ocean, through the New Antarctic Pole, through the antipodes of Paris, Cook and Society Islands in Oceania, Quadra and Vancouver Islands off the coast of British Columbia, through New England in North America - and further to the Melville Peninsula in the northern polar region.

Starting from this point, the steamer was to head north-west, up to the parallel of Discovery Island, where the end of that conditional line, which was drawn along 141 meridian and which separates the provinces of Victoria and New South Wales from the south of South Australia.

Perhaps their direction is related to meridians used in acupuncture, the usefulness of which no one disputes anymore.

Shiatsu affects the same points along meridian as acupuncture points intended for the treatment of eye diseases.

Muscat Imamat, located between fifty-third and fifty-seventh meridians and between the twenty-second and twenty-seventh parallels, it extends five hundred and forty kilometers in length and two hundred and eighty in width.

The eastern border of Asia Minor as a physical-geographical zone is usually considered a line from the Mediterranean coast south of Iskenderun Bay, then between the 40th meridian and Lake Van, and in the north the border roughly coincides with the lower course of the Chorokha River.

At the indicated time, Cyrus carefully noted this point and, drawing a mental curve between the sun and two trees that were supposed to serve as reference points, he obtained a constant meridian for further calculations The two days remaining before the start of the bricks were spent collecting fuel. The colonists cut fresh branches and picked up all the brushwood lying under the trees.

The village of Iquitos is located on the left bank of the Amazon, about seventy-fourth meridian, in that part of the great river, where it is also called Marañon and where its bed separates Peru from the Republic of Ecuador, fifty-five leagues west of the Brazilian border.