Degree of longitude

the distance on a parallel of latitude between two meridians that make an angle of one degree with each other at the poles - a distance which varies as the cosine of the latitude, being at the equator 69.16 statute miles.

See also: Degree

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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