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English
Etymology
From east + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
easting (countable and uncountable, plural eastings)
- (cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
- Coordinate term: longitude
- (nautical) A distance traveled eastward.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC: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.
- A turning towards the east.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented In Three Volumes">…], volume I, London: James R Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 47:He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind.
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Translations
distance east of a standard reference meridian
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Anagrams
- gainset, gainest, ageinst, teasing, tagines, giantes, tangies, tsigane, eatings, ingesta, seating, genista, signate, ingates