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What is prime meridian?

What is prime meridian? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.
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As you go east from the prime meridian, the longitude increases to 180 degrees.
Fourthly, lights out in this wing is extended from the ten thirty curfew that was given to you before your acceptance into this team, to eleven o'clock prime meridian.
Key amongst the equipment here was the transit telescope, angled to move only up and down, and from 1750 it was this telescope that defined Britain's prime meridian.
The transit house marking the prime meridian, attached on the west side of the main building, was built separately.
The prime meridian, which divides the world arbitrarily into east and west, cuts through Antarctica, similarly dividing it.
The event is scheduled to begin on Feb. 18 in Greenwich Park in London, which is on the prime meridian.

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