meridian
IPA: mɝˈɪdiʌn
noun
- (astronomy)
- 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.
- (also geography) 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.
- (by extension)
- The place on the celestial meridian where it is crossed by the sun or a star at its highest point.
- (figuratively) The highest or most developed point, or most splendid stage, of something; culmination, peak, zenith.
- (figuratively, specifically) Chiefly followed by of: the middle period of someone's life, when they are at their full abilities or strength; one's prime.
- A ring or half-ring with markings in which an artificial globe is installed and may spin.
- (mathematics) 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).
- (US, printing, dated) The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
- (obsolete)
- The south.
- Midday, noon.
- A midday rest; a siesta.
- A particular area or situation considered as having a specific characteristic or identity; also, the characteristics, habits, or tastes of a specific group, locale, etc.
- (Scotland) An alcoholic drink taken at midday.
- (acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine) Any of the pathways on the body along which chi or qi (life force) is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed; especially, one of twelve such pathways associated with organs of the body.
- A ghost town in Humboldt County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Kern County, California.
- A neighborhood of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.
- A census-designated place in Sutter County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Douglas County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Leon County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in McIntosh County, Georgia.
- A sizable city in Ada County, Idaho.
- A city, the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.
- A ghost town in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
- A village in Cayuga County, New York.
- A town in Logan County, Oklahoma.
- A census-designated place in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
- A census-designated place in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A city, the county seat of Bosque County, Texas, United States.
- A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, also known as Tangletown.
verb
- (transitive) To cause an object to reach the meridian or highest point of (something).
- (intransitive) Of a celestial body: to reach its meridian.
adjective
- Relating to a meridian (in various senses); meridional.
- (archaic except literary) Relating to midday or noon.
- (obsolete)
- Relating to the culmination or highest point.
- Relating to the south; meridional, southern.
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Examples of "meridian" in Sentences
- The largest meridian is 180 degrees as you ought to know very well.
- The large largest meridian is 180 degrees as you ought to know very well.
- Miller specializes in Japanese meridian therapy and fertility enhancement.
- It flows up the Ren meridian, which is in the front midline of the body close to the surface, to the Bai Hui point.
- From there it flows down the Du meridian, which is in the back midline of the body within the spinal cord, and returns to the Hui Yin.
- The first jog west of a meridian is about 225 feet, and the correction increases by about that much again for every township you move west, until you reach the next meridian.
- The advantage of stick with 1000 time divisions per day and the Swiss meridian is that you could, in order to bootstrap the efffort, use the downloads from the Swatch website for tracking ‘hashtime’
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