"calculate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For the first time, he began to calculate the precise latitude and longitude of the surrounding milieu.
- Until the mid-1750s, accurate navigation at sea out of sight of land was an unsolved problem due to the difficulty in calculating longitude.
- "He has promised to teach me to take observations and calculate latitude and longitude and I intend to improve the opportunity!"
- It is also responsible for calculating latitude and longitude.
- In order to calculate longitude a sailor would need to know the time difference between his current location and a fixed point somewhere on earth, usually the port of call.
- Molesworth himself earned the respect of Sir Isaac Newton when he invented a chronometer for calculating longitude.
- So she starts calculating longitude and latitude, distance and mileage.
- An example of this is devices that calculate latitude and longitude by receiving signals from the Pentagon's Navstar Global Positioning System satellites.
- Importantly, Harrison showed everyone that it could be done by using a watch to calculate longitude.
- There he made calculated the latitude and longitude of his native town (see infra).
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