easting

[ ee-sting ]

/ ˈi stɪŋ /

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noun

Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.

a shifting eastward; easterly direction.

Surveying. a distance east from a north-south reference line.

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Origin of easting

First recorded in 1620–30; east + -ing¹

Words nearby easting

East Haven, East India Company, East Indian, East Indian walnut, East Indies, easting, easting down, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, East Islip, East Kilbride, Eastlake

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How to use easting in a sentence

We have been making a little easting, but that is all, and we are getting into the region of ice.
A Final Reckoning|G. A. Henty
Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to “run their easting down.”
The Viking Blood|Frederick William Wallace
It was possible that the Dornoch had proceeded directly to the southward, after making less easting than was anticipated.
Fighting for the Right|Oliver Optic
"She has made all the easting necessary, and by this time she has laid her course about south-west," continued the commander.
Fighting for the Right|Oliver Optic

I didn't suppose a couple of thousand miles of easting would take the heart out of things the way it does.
Empire Builders|Francis Lynde

British Dictionary definitions for easting

easting

/ (ˈiːstɪŋ) /

noun

nautical the net distance eastwards made by a vessel moving towards the east

cartography

the distance eastwards of a point from a given meridian indicated by the first half of a map grid reference
a longitudinal grid lineCompare northing (def. 3)

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