| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In the direction of the meridian.[Websters]
2. In an austral or southern manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective meridional.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (meridional) | 1. Of or relating to a meridian.[Wordnet]. 2. Located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places.[Wordnet]. 3. Of or pertaining to the meridian.[Websters]. 4. Having a southern aspect; southern; southerly.[Websters]. 5. Being southern, austral or southerly.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Adjective base of the adverb meridionally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "MERIDIONALLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: MERIDIONALLY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] In the direction of the meridian. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: meridional
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Meridional distance | The distance or departure from the meridian; the easting or westing. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Meridional parts | Parts of the meridian in Mercator's projection, corresponding to each minute of latitude from the equator up to 70 or 80 degrees; tabulated numbers representing these parts used in projecting charts, and in solving cases in Mercator's sailing. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Meridional ray | Meridional rays are rays that pass through the axis of the optical fiber. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: meridional
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Meridional cell | Geography | Very large-scale convective circulation of the atmosphere which takes place in a meridional plane. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Meridional exchange | Geography | Latitudinal interchange of material (e. g. water vapour) and of physical and mechanical properties (e. g. heat and momentum) caused by meridional circulation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Meridional flow | Weather | 1: A type of atmospheric circulation pattern in which the north and south component of motion is unusually pronounced. Opposite of zonal flow. (references) | |
| 2: Large-scale atmospheric flow in which the north-south component (i.e., longitudinal, or along a meridian) is pronounced. The accompanying zonal (east-west) component often is weaker than normal. Compare with zonal flow. (references) | |||
| Meridional index | Geography | Circulation index relating to the meridional component of the atmospheric circulation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Meridional line | Environment | A north-south line or a line along a meridian of longitude. (references) | |
| Meridional offsets | Environment | Small distances applied to the meridional differences in order to create the curves of the latitudes on a map projection. (references) | |
| Meridional parts | Geography | Are lengths of the meridian on a Mercator projection between the equator and any given latitude, expressed in units of a minute of longitude at the equator DU BUREAU HYDROGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO, 1951. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Meridional ray | Business | In fiber optics, a ray that passes through the optical axis of an optical fiber (in contrast with a skew ray, which does not). (references) | |
| Meridional ray | Electrical Engineering | A light ray that passes through the central axis of the fiber, is internally reflected, and is confined to a single plane, called the meridian plane. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Meridional section through a channel | Physics | The section of a hydraulic channel by a meridional plane; the channel being a surface of rotation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Meridional zones | Environment | Areas on the surface of the earth formed by adjacent meridians. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: meridional | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Meridional French | 6 | Meridional flow | 4 | |
| Rana Arborea Meridional | 5 | Meridional French | 6 | |
| Rana Lanceolada Meridional | 4 | Rana Arborea Meridional | 5 | |
| Meridional flow | 4 | Rana Lanceolada Meridional | 4 | |
| Zonal and meridional | 3 | Zonal and meridional | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
