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How to use easting in a sentence

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These four regions divide the CBC plots into approximately equal samples around easting 45 and northing 21 of the U.K. national grid.
This means that for each of these addresses, an associated northing and easting has been assigned.
With the roamer, the reference can now be given as 91559435. Note that the reference always has an even number of digits, the first half representing the easting, the second half the northing.
The vessel was prematurely brought on to a course for the home marina without having made sufficient easting to clear the eastern extension of the Outer Harbour East Headland.
Coordinates on a map are usually in terms northing N and easting E offsets relative to a specified origin.
While latitude could be marked in degrees as observed by astrolabe or quadrant, easting could only be given in distance.
Examples from Classical Literature
But such a calculation does not take into consideration the easting or westing of the ship itself.
And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.
We couldn't make our easting a bit, and the old man kept saying that we should never get through the Straits.
At this time we began to prepare for the heavy weather of our easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean is called.
My experience in running down the easting has always been the same and I have made the trip a number of times.
That coming from the poles will appear to have easting in them, and those going towards the poles westing.
As we were easting off the rope the sound of a paddle was heard up the stream, and we accordingly kept on.
It was intensely monotonous and the adventurous spells were only occasional, like the time we ran the easting down the Horn.
The captain, eager for easting, made a fair wind of it and guyed the booms out wing and wing.
Through our ninety degrees of easting I had but little exercise.
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