westing

American  

[wes-ting] / ˈwɛs tɪŋ /

noun

1. Navigation. the distance due west made good on any course tending westward; westerly departure.

2. Surveying. a distance west from a north-south reference line.

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westing British  

/ ˈwɛstɪŋ /

noun

1. nautical movement, deviation, or distance covered in a westerly direction, esp as expressed in the resulting difference in longitude

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Etymology

Origin of westing

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

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Example Sentences

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westing

The sun was already westing toward evening, and the trees where they were had plunged them into a partial dude.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

His own courage and resolution however never failed, and he still made the best of his way to the southward, seizing every opportunity of making westing.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by George Grey

We have made about eighty miles of westing since we got on our course, and we are now just on the longitude of the westermost point of the islands.

From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Sackett announced to me that we had made no westing to speak of, on account of the ship now being in the southeasterly set of the Agullas current.

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

Likewise, if the ship is moving westward, an allowance must be made for the westing of the ship.

From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

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