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terrestrial longitude comparison table

Subject	is an instance of	has unit	is a kind of	is a component of	has definition
angle		angle unit	quantity
geocentric coordinate component			coordinate component	geocentric coordinate
terrestrial longitude	angle	angle unit		geocentric coordinate	Angular distance measured along the Earth's equator from the Greenwich meridian to the meridian of a geographic location.

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