longitude

• Another clause of the bill offered a premium of twenty thousand pounds for the invention of any method whatever, by means of which the longitude could be determined within thirty miles. —  Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
• Allowing for difference of longitude, the contre-maître who was Monsieur Auguste's remote predecessor was lifting the morning's baking out of that oven at the very moment when Columbus saw through the darkness westward the lights of a new world In the Gasquet family it was the custom to eat the Great Supper in the oven room: because that was the heart, the sanctuary, of the house; the place consecrated by the toil which gave the family its livelihood. —  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
• Its ceremonies differ with the degrees of latitude and longitude, and it receives variant interpretations. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• The rate of the chronometer had become so irregular that it could not be depended upon for finding the longitude, and during the winter it stopped altogether Proceeding according to the course he had adopted, the party and their adventurous leader on the 3rd of August, at 11 o'clock a.m., rounded a high bluff cape, which they called after the lady of Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• If two stations have the same longitude, then the difference between the lunitidal intervals for the two stations denotes the difference in the times of occurrence of the tides. —  The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

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