Definition:Prime Meridian/Also defined as
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Prime Meridian: Also defined as
Many sources take it for granted that the prime meridian is also the Greenwich meridian.
However, the Greenwich meridian has since been superseded as the international reference meridian by the IERS reference meridian.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): meridian: 1.
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): meridian: 1.
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): prime meridian