S vs Longitude - What's the difference?
s | longitude |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=
Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
(archaic) Length.
* {{quote-book, passage=His shoulders are remarkably sloping, giving an appearance of great longitude to his neck.
, pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=-MdPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA504&dq=%22great+longitude%22&lr=&as_brr=0&ei=iGOHT_DJCZTcNYDmlJQD&cd=13&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22great%20longitude%22&f=false
, page=504
, title=The American Quarterly Review
, volume=10
, year=1831
, chapter=Griffin's Remains
, author=Francis Griffin}}
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun longitude is
angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}longitude
English
(wikipedia longitude)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}