easting
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: eas‧ting
NounEdit
easting (plural eastings)
- (cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
- Coordinate term: longitude
- (nautical) A distance traveled eastward.
- A turning towards the east.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666, phase the first (The Maiden), page 47:
- He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind.
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TranslationsEdit
distance east of a standard reference meridian
distance traveled east
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