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Noun: prime meridian
  1. Meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)
Noun: Prime meridian
  1. The meridian passing through Greenwich; was internationally adopted as the earth's zero of longitude in 1884
    - Greenwich Meridian

Type of: line of longitude, meridian

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