Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prime meridian

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: prime merid-i-an
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.

Example Sentences

"Other prime meridians were presented as candidates for the world's baseline: Jerusalem; Ferro; Kamchatka; the mid-Atlantic; the Bering Strait; and Greenwich's antimeridian."

Inflected Forms

prime meridians (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

antimeridian

Synonyms

Greenwich meridian zero meridian

Questions

What does prime meridian mean?: The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.

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