meridian adj : of or happening at noon; "meridian hour"

1 a town in eastern Mississippi

2 an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator; "all points on the same meridian have the same longitude" [syn: longitude, line of longitude]

see Meridian

English

Noun

1. An imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles.
2. Either half of such a great circle, all points of which have the same longitude.
3. A great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular observer.
4. A similar line on any general surface of revolution.
5. Any of the longitudinal pathways on the body along which the acupuncture points are distributed.
6. The highest point or state of consciousness and enlightenment achievable by a human.

Translations

Adjective

meridian

1. Meridional; relating to a meridian.
2. Relating to noon

Meridian may refer to:

Earth science

• Meridian (astronomy), imaginary circle perpendicular to the celestial equator and horizon
• Meridian (geography), imaginary line on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole
• Prime Meridian, the meridian at which longitude is defined to be 0° on the Earth's surface.
• Principal meridian, the meridian on which a region is surveyed, under the Dominion Land Survey in Canada or the Public Land Survey System in the United States

United States geography

• Meridian, California
• Meridian, Colorado
• Meridian, Florida
• Meridian, Idaho
• Meridian, Mississippi
• Meridian, New York
• Meridian, Oklahoma
  • Meridian, Logan County, Oklahoma
  • Meridian, Stephens County, Oklahoma
• Meridian, Pennsylvania
• Meridian, Seattle, Washington
• Meridian, Texas
• Meridian Township, Clinton County, Illinois
• Meridian Charter Township, Michigan

Arts and entertainment

* Meridian (comics), comic book series published by CrossGen in the early 2000s

• Meridian (W.I.T.C.H.), a fictional realm in the Italian comic book series, W.I.T.C.H.
• Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, 1990 movie
• Meridian 59, online game
• Meridian (Nosgoth), the capitol of Nosgoth in Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain
• Meridian (novel), novel by Alice Walker
• Rue Meridian, character from The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series and High Druid of Shannara series by Terry Brooks
• Meridian Green, California-based folk musician
• Meridian Records, a record label
• "Meridian" (DS9 episode), third season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "Meridian" (Stargate SG-1), episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
• Meridian Broadcasting, ITV station for the south and south-east of England

Business

• Meridian Audio, Ltd., British manufacturer of audio equipment
• Meridian Bank, bank based in Serbia
• Meridian Energy Limited, New Zealand electricity generation and electricity retailing company

Education

• Meridian High School (disambiguation page)
• Meridian Technology Center, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Transportation

• Meridian (train), British Rail Class 222 trains
• MS Meridian, cruise ship constructed in 1961

Other

• Channel (Chinese medicine), or "Meridian"
• Meridian KSI, a commercial Learning Management System product
• Meridian (perimetry, visual field), polar coordinate system for the visual field
• Meridian SL-1, the first practical all-digital telephone switch aimed at the smaller PBX market
• One Meridian Plaza fire, an office building that burned down in Philadelphia, PA in 1991
• Nortel Meridian, a popular PBX by Nortel Networks

See also

• Meridian Mall (disambiguation page)

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