Difference between revisions of "Atipode"

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Anything exactly oppostie to something else.  Particularly, that point on the Earth's surface 180 degrees of longitude and the same number of degrees of latitude from the Equator, but of opposite sign from a give place.
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Anything exactly oppostie to something else.  Given a point on the Earth's surface, the antipode will be found 180 degrees of longitude from the given point and the same number of degrees of latitude from the Equator, but of opposite sign from the give point.

Revision as of 15:18, 29 June 2006

Anything exactly oppostie to something else. Given a point on the Earth's surface, the antipode will be found 180 degrees of longitude from the given point and the same number of degrees of latitude from the Equator, but of opposite sign from the give point.