easting

English

Etymology

From east +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: eas‧ting

Noun

easting (countable and uncountable, plural eastings)

1. (cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.

   Coordinate term: longitude

2. (nautical) A distance traveled eastward.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.

3. 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, 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.

Derived terms

• false easting

Translations

distance east of a standard reference meridian

distance traveled east

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} Oostwaarde

See also

• northing

Anagrams

• gainset, gainest, ageinst, teasing, tagines, giantes, tangies, tsigane, eatings, ingesta, seating, genista, signate, ingates