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• LONGITUDE
  
  Distance measured east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle which the meridian through a place makes with some standard meridian, as that of Greenwich, Great Britain or Paris, France. Longitude may be measured in time (longitude in time) or in degrees (longitude in arc). (See latitude, meridian)
  
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