| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lon·gi·tude |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l n j -t d , -tyd, lôn- |
| NOUN: | 1. Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds. 2. Celestial longitude. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, length, a measured length, from Old French, from Latin longit d , longitdin-, from longus, long. See del-1 in Appendix I.
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