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Meridiano is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 3,824 (2020 est.) in an area of 228.5 km². [2] The elevation is 529 m. Media
More than four hundred acupuncture points have been described, with the majority located on one of the twenty main cutaneous and subcutaneous meridians, pathways which run throughout the body and according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) transport qi.
Meridiano (in English, meridian) may refer to Meridiano, São Paulo; Diario Meridiano, a Venezuelan sports newspaper; Meridiano Televisión, a Venezuelan sports network
Meridian Room (or Cassini Room) at the Paris Observatory, 61 avenue de l'Observatoire (14th arrondissement).The Paris meridian is traced on the floor. The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France – now longitude 2°20′14.02500″ East.
Meridians run between the North and South poles. In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian). [1]
The meridian on the celestial sphere. An observer's upper meridian, a semicircle contains their zenith and both celestial poles; the observer's local meridian is the semicircle that passes through their zenith and the north and south points of their horizon.
Part of map of Upper Silesia (1746) with Latin message: Longitudines numeratæ à primo Meridiano per Ins(ulam) Ferri Dutch map from 1720 over the North Pole with the Ferro Meridian. The line of longitude running through El Hierro (Ferro), the westernmost of the Canary Islands , was known in European history as the prime meridian in common use ...
A prime meridian is an arbitrarily chosen meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. On a spheroid, a prime meridian and its anti-meridian (the 180th meridian in a 360°-system) form a great ellipse.