prime meridian

English

Noun

prime meridian (plural prime meridians)

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

   Synonyms: Greenwich meridian, zero meridian

   Coordinate term: antimeridian

   • 2017, Charles W. J. Withers, Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 183:

     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.

Translations

reference line

• Catalan: meridià zero m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本初子午線／本初子午线 (zh) (běnchū zǐwǔxiàn), 格林威治子午線／格林威治子午线 (Gélínwēizhì zǐwǔxiàn), 格林尼治子午線／格林尼治子午线 (Gélínnízhì zǐwǔxiàn)

• Dutch: nulmeridiaan (nl) m
• Finnish: nollameridiaani
• French: premier méridien m, méridien d’origine m
• German: Nullmeridian (de) m
• Hindi: प्रधान यामोत्तर m (pradhān yāmottar)
• Hungarian: kezdő délkör
• Italian: meridiano zero m
• Moore: bĩin-lu-tikdga
• Portuguese: meridiano primário m, meridiano principal m
• Romanian: primul meridian (ro) n
• Russian: Гри́нвичский меридиа́н m (Grínvičskij meridián)
• Spanish: meridiano cero m
• Swedish: nollmeridian (sv) c
• Vietnamese: kinh tuyến gốc (vi)
• Welsh: prif feridian f