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easting

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east·ing  (stng)
n.
1. The difference in longitude between two positions as a result of movement to the east.
2. Progress toward the east.
easting [ˈiːstɪŋ]
n
1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical the net distance eastwards made by a vessel moving towards the east
2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Cartography
a.  the distance eastwards of a point from a given meridian indicated by the first half of a map grid reference
b.  a longitudinal grid line Compare northing [3]
Eastward (that is from left to right) reading of grid values on a map.


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It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
The liquor mounted in the heads of all of us, and the talk of Scotty and the harpooner was upon running the Easting down, gales off the Horn and pamperos off the Plate, lower topsail breezes, southerly busters, North Pacific gales, and of smashed whaleboats in the Arctic ice.
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According to the best of his calculations they had made sufficient easting during the past two days to have brought them to a point almost directly north of Fort Dinosaur and as nothing could be gained by retracing their steps along the base of the cliffs he decided to strike due south through the unexplored country between them and the fort.
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