meridian

/mә'ridiәn/

BNC频率: 22028

现代语料频率: 22120

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中文翻译

n. 子午线, 经线, 顶点

a. 子午线的, 最高点的, 顶点的

英文解释

n. a town in eastern Mississippi

n. an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator

a. of or happening at noon

词态变化

复数形式:meridians

常见例句

An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon. n

The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian

as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

n the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian n a state in southwestern United States

the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian