easting

[ ee-sting ]

noun

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

easting

/ ˈiːstɪŋ /

noun

1. nautical the net distance eastwards made by a vessel moving towards the east
2. 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 line Compare northing

Word History and Origins

Origin of easting¹

First recorded in 1620–30; east + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

We have been making a little easting, but that is all, and we are getting into the region of ice.

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Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to “run their easting down.”

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It was possible that the Dornoch had proceeded directly to the southward, after making less easting than was anticipated.

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"She has made all the easting necessary, and by this time she has laid her course about south-west," continued the commander.

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I didn't suppose a couple of thousand miles of easting would take the heart out of things the way it does.

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