Longitude vs Vertical - What's the difference?
longitude | vertical |
Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
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, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
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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.
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, page=504
, title=The American Quarterly Review
, volume=10
, year=1831
, chapter=Griffin's Remains
, author=Francis Griffin}}
A vertex or zenith.
A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
A vertical component of a structure.
(marketing) A vertical market.
Along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth.
In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis.
(marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
As nouns the difference between longitude and vertical
is that longitude is angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian while vertical is a vertex or zenith.As an adjective vertical is
along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the earth.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.}}
Synonyms
* (half of a great circle) meridianDerived terms
* longitudinalSee also
* latitude * equator * prime meridianvertical
English
Noun
(en noun)- We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals .