Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The difference in longitude between two positions as a result of movement to the east.
- n. Progress toward the east.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical and surveying, the distance eastward from a given meridian; the distance made by a ship on an eastern course, expressed in nautical miles.
- n. Reaching the point in its diurnal motion where it crosses the prime vertical and is exactly east of the observer: said of a heavenly body.
Wiktionary
- n. cartography The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
- n. nautical A distance traveled eastward.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut. & Surv.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.
Examples
“I had now made eighty degrees easting, which is the distance from the main at which Pepys 'Island is placed in”
“Gale follows gale, always from the west, and we make easting.”
“And each time the eternal west wind smote him back and he made easting.”
“And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.”
“They talk about running the easting down," Mr. Pike chortled to me, as we clung to the poop-rail to keep from fetching away and breaking ribs and necks.”
“I enjoy dominion over you and easting you too, more then you can even comprehend!”
“Ideally we'd publish NG, easting/northing and lat/long, because the stored data can be pushed through any transformations in the publication process.”
Is anyone using machine tags/triples for National Grid references?
“It is then converted to easting, northing, lat and long so it can be used in a variety of apps.”
Is anyone using machine tags/triples for National Grid references?
“This picture of Jesus easting cuy is found in Cusco cathedral, it is great!”
“Using these values, we can state that the easting as being 916 and the northing as 944.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘easting’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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SCRABBLE - Satine, 6-letter stems
The only letters without a "satine" bingo possibility: J, Q, Y
zeatins, zaniest, sextain, antisex, waniest, tawnies, vainest, natives, naivest, sinuate, aunties, satinet and 55 more...
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Sea/Water
keel, crest, ripple, curl, roll, easting, yaw, woold, orlop, trill, deck, yare and 19 more...
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Surveying
an attempt to subdivide your life
theodolite, gun, instrument, azimuth, bearing, angle, chainman, crew chief, minor partition, control, backsight, d.i. and 77 more...
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tess pretties
gloss of unknown words to me, of tess of the d'urbervilles
Tweets
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dailyword This word was also used in the "Master And Commander" movie. Jul 31, 2012