All 3 Uses of
meridian
in
The Da Vinci Code
- On a globe, a Rose Line—also called a meridian or longitude—was any imaginary line drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole.†
Chpt 21-22
- The chapel's geographic coordinates fall precisely on the north-south meridian that runs through Glastonbury.†
Chpt 103-104 *
- ROSLIN This ancient spelling, Langdon explained to Sophie, derived from the Rose Line meridian on which the chapel sat; or, as Grail academics preferred to believe, from the "Line of Rose"—the ancestral lineage of Mary Magdalene.†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(meridian) one of the imaginary lines between the north and south pole that are used to establish east-to-west position (longitude)