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What does easting mean?

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Noun
  1. (cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
  2. (nautical) A distance traveled eastward.
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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.
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.
But such a calculation does not take into consideration the easting or westing of the ship itself.
At this time we began to prepare for the heavy weather of our easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean is called.
That coming from the poles will appear to have easting in them, and those going towards the poles westing.
This means that for each of these addresses, an associated northing and easting has been assigned.

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