easting

easting
/ee"sting/, n.
1. Navig. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
2. a shifting eastward; easterly direction.
3. Survey. a distance east from a north-south reference line.
[1620-30; EAST + -ING1]

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