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meridian

C1 noun

meridian /məˈɹɪ.di.ən/ nghĩa là kinh tuyến trời

Các nghĩa

  1. kinh tuyến trời

    In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.

    Japan is on the 135th meridian East.

    The moon does not cross the meridian today.

    The Greenwich meridian passes through the country.

  2. kinh tuyến

    In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude.

    also

    Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

  3. điểm cao nhất trên kinh tuyến trời

    The place on the celestial meridian where it is crossed by the sun or a star at its highest point.

    broadly

  4. đỉnh cao, cực điểm

    The highest or most developed point, or most splendid stage, of something; culmination, peak, zenith.

    broadly · figuratively

    […] Ovid liv'd vvhen the Roman Tongue vvas in its Meridian; [Geoffrey] Chaucer, in the Davvning of our Language: […]

    This was the moment at which the fortunes of Montague reached the meridian. The decline was close at hand.

  5. thời kỳ sung sức nhất, độ chín

    Chiefly followed by of: the middle period of someone's life, when they are at their full abilities or strength; one's prime.

    broadly · figuratively · specifically

  6. vòng chia độ của quả địa cầu

    A ring or half-ring with markings in which an artificial globe is installed and may spin.

    broadly

    Call to mind thy dream, / An earthly globe, / On whoſe meridian was engraven, / Theſe ſeas are tears, and heav'n the haven.

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  1. đường kinh tuyến trên mặt cầu

    A line passing through the poles of any sphere; a notional line on the surface of a curved or round body (in particular, an eyeball).

    broadly

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