easting

[ee-sting]

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noun

Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
a shifting eastward; easterly direction.
Surveying. a distance east from a north-south reference line.

Origin of easting

First recorded in 1620–30; east + -ing¹

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Examples from the Web for easting

Historical Examples

And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Jack London
Through our ninety degrees of Easting I had but little exercise.
Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4
Various
We couldn't make our easting a bit, and the old man kept saying that we should never get through the Straits.
The Recipe for Diamonds
Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
At this time we began to prepare for the heavy weather of our Easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean is called.
Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4
Various
My experience in running down the Easting has always been the same and I have made the trip a number of times.
Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4
Various

British Dictionary definitions for easting

easting

noun

nautical the net distance eastwards made by a vessel moving towards the east
cartography
1. the distance eastwards of a point from a given meridian indicated by the first half of a map grid reference
2. a longitudinal grid lineCompare northing (def. 3)

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Examples from the Web for easting

Historical Examples

And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.

Through our ninety degrees of Easting I had but little exercise.

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.

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Origin of easting