NOUN
- a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center
How To Use great circle In A Sentence
- This is the second Mercator chart showing Lindbergh's route as a series of 500 mile-long loxodromes approximating the great circle route from New York to Paris.
- Great circle path truest shortest, aka geodesic bulges towards southeast. The Myth of the strategic location of the Taiwan Strait
- Up the track, sweeping in a great circle as it swung the curve, a headlight's glare cut through the night -- and Toddles "shinned" the foot. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
- The place was a garden, somewhat gone to waste, with a gravel drive running round a great circle of periwinkles with a spotted aucuba in the middle. The Carbonels
- Whereas meridians of longitude loop, from the North Pole to the South and back again, in great circles of the same size, converging at the ends of the earth.
- A straight line on the polyconic chart represents a near approach to a great circle, making a slightly different angle with each meridian of longitude as they converge toward the poles. Lectures in Navigation
- This was the first landfall for vessels sailing the ‘great circle course’ from South Africa's Cape of Good Hope to the eastern Australian colonies.
- Like the lines of longitude on Earth, each great circle eventually intersects with every other great circle at the poles of the sphere.
- Like the lines of longitude on Earth, each great circle eventually intersects with every other great circle at the poles of the sphere.
- Across the road to the south-west was the third circle, about half the size of the great circle.
