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adj. - Of or relating to a great circle that passes through the earth's poles adj. - Located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places.

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  • After this, I have gone toward the parts meridional, that is, toward the south, and I have found that in Lybia men see first the star
  • Temperatures in the North Atlantic are influenced by a giant 'conveyor belt' of warm water from the south called the meridional overturning circulation.
  • Jet streams sometimes form huge loops over North America, with segments flowing from north to south or south to north - what scientists call meridional flow.
  • It shows how the graceful fiction that Italy is all "meridional" flourished for some time before being refuted by grumbling tourists.
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