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easting
/ ˈiːstɪŋ /
noun
- nautical the net distance eastwards made by a vessel moving towards the east
- cartography
- the distance eastwards of a point from a given meridian indicated by the first half of a map grid reference
- a longitudinal grid line Compare northing
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We have been making a little easting, but that is all, and we are getting into the region of ice.
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Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to “run their easting down.”
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It was possible that the Dornoch had proceeded directly to the southward, after making less easting than was anticipated.
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"She has made all the easting necessary, and by this time she has laid her course about south-west," continued the commander.
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I didn't suppose a couple of thousand miles of easting would take the heart out of things the way it does.
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