meridian

英 [m?'r?d??n] 美[m?'r?d??n]

近義詞altitude

暢通詞匯TOEFL

復(fù)數(shù):?meridians;

meridian 子午線，經(jīng)線

來自拉丁語meridies,中午，來自medius,中間的，詞源同middle,字母d被r音化，dies,天，詞源同diurnal.引申詞義中午的太陽，并用于地理學(xué)術(shù)語子午線，經(jīng)線。

meridian: meridian: [14] Etymologically, meridian denotes the ‘middle of the day’. It comes via Old French from Latin merīdiānus, a derivative of merīdiēs ‘mid-day’. This was an alteration of an earlier medidiēs, a compound noun formed from medius ‘middle’ (source of English medium) and diēs ‘day’. The application of the word to a circle passing round the Earth or the celestial sphere, which is an ancient one, comes from the notion of the sun crossing it at noon.
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meridian (n.): mid-14c., "noon," from Old French meridien "of the noon time, midday; the Meridian; southerner" (12c.), and directly from Latin meridianus "of midday, of noon, southerly, to the south," from meridies "noon, south," from meridie "at noon," altered by dissimilation from pre-Latin *medi die, locative of medius "mid-" (see medial (adj.)) + dies "day" (see diurnal). Cartographic sense first recorded late 14c. Figurative uses tend to suggest "point of highest development or fullest power."

The city in Mississippi, U.S., was settled 1854 (as Sowashee Station) at a railway junction and given its current name in 1860, supposedly by people who thought meridian meant "junction" (they perhaps confused the word with median).

1. All places on the same meridian have the same longitude.: 在同一子午線上的地方都有相同的經(jīng)度.

3. Meridian shares were recently up 12 per cent at 7.5 c.: Meridian公司的股票最近上漲了百分之十二,達(dá)到了7.5c的股息.

4. Only rarely did businesses of Schefenacker's or Meridian's size have to endure long insolvencies.: 像雪弗萊克和Meridian那種規(guī)模的公司,很少是迫不得已才會遭受長期的破產(chǎn)過程.

5. MERIDIAN, Idaho - Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious - students were writing the answers under the brim.: meridian愛達(dá)荷 - 禁止戴棒球帽進(jìn)考場似乎很合理, 因?yàn)閷W(xué)生可以將考題答案藏在帽沿下面.