Meridian or a meridian line (from Latin ''meridies'' via Old French ''meridiane'', meaning “midday”) may refer to

Science

Meridian (astronomy) In astronomy, the meridian is the great circle passing through the celestial poles, as well as the zenith and nadir of an observer's location. Consequently, it contains also the north and south points on the horizon, and it is perpendicular to ...

, imaginary circle in a plane perpendicular to the planes of the celestial equator and horizon **

Central meridian (planets) The central meridian of a celestial body that presents a disc to an observer (such as planet, moon, or star) is the meridian on the body's surface that goes through the centre of the body's disc as seen from the point of view of the observer. The ...

Meridian (geography) In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian). In other words, it is a li ...

, an imaginary arc on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole **

Meridian arc In geodesy and navigation, a meridian arc is the curve between two points on the Earth's surface having the same longitude. The term may refer either to a segment of the meridian, or to its length. The purpose of measuring meridian arcs is to de ...

, the distance between two points with the same longitude **

Prime meridian A prime meridian is an arbitrary meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. Together, a prime meridian and its anti-meridian (the 180th meridian in a 360°-system) form a great c ...

, origin of longitudes **

Principal meridian A principal meridian is a meridian used for survey control in a large region. Canada The Dominion Land Survey of Western Canada took its origin at the First (or Principal) Meridian, located at 97°27′28.41″ west of Greenwich, just west of Win ...

, arbitrary meridians used as references in land surveying * Meridian line, used with a gnomon to measure solar elevation and time of year *

Autonomous sensory meridian response Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A pleasant form of paresthesia, it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia ...

, a static-like or tingling sensation on the skin

Places

Cities and towns

Meridian, California (disambiguation) Meridian, California may refer to: * Meridian, Humboldt County, California * Meridian, Kern County, California * Meridian, Santa Clara County, California * Meridian, Sutter County, California See also * 120th meridian west The meridian 120° ...

, U.S., multiple California towns named Meridian *

Meridian, Colorado Meridian is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, Florida Meridian is a small and old unincorporated community in northwestern Leon County, Florida, United States. Location Meridian is located on the west side of Lake Iamonia on N. Meridian Road, 12 miles north of Tallahassee. History Antebellum M ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, Georgia Meridian is an unincorporated community in McIntosh County, Georgia, McIntosh County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. The community is located along Georgia State Route 99, north-northeast of Darien, Georgia, Darien. Meridian has a p ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, Idaho Meridian is a city located in Ada County in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population of Meridian was 117,635, making it the second largest city in Idaho after Boise. Meridian is considered the state's fastest-growing city an ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, Mississippi Meridian is the List of municipalities in Mississippi, seventh largest city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, with a population of 41,148 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census and an estimated population in 2018 of 36,347. It is the count ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, Nebraska Meridian is a ghost town in Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States. History An early variant name was Big Sandy. A post office called Big Sandy was established in 1865, renamed Meridian in 1870 and remained in operation until it was discontin ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, New York Meridian is a village in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The population was 309 at the 2010 census. Meridian is near the northern town line of the town of Cato and is west of Syracuse. History The community was settled in 1804. It was ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, Oklahoma (disambiguation) Meridian may refer to: *Meridian, Logan County, Oklahoma, town * Meridian, Stephens County, Oklahoma, CDP See also * Indian meridian The Indian meridian, in longitude 97° 14′ 30″ west from Greenwich, extends from Red River to the south bou ...

, U.S., multiple Oklahoma towns named Meridian *

Meridian, Pennsylvania Meridian is a census-designated place (CDP) in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,881 at the 2010 census. History Meridian was linked to Butler, Evans City and Pittsburgh in 1908 by the Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler ...

, U.S. *

Meridian, Seattle Meridian or Tangletown is the part of Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood that lies north of N 50th Street, near Green Lake. Of note are its "K streets": Kensington, Kenwood, Keystone, and Kirkwood Places N. The concentration of mostly retail b ...

, Washington, U.S. *

Meridian, Texas Meridian (pronounced muh-REE-dee-uhn by locals) is a city and the county seat of Bosque County in central Texas, United States. It is forty-seven miles northwest of Waco. The population was 1,493 at the 2010 census. Geography Meridian is locate ...

, U.S.

Townships

Meridian Township, Clinton County, Illinois Meridian Township is one of fifteen townships in Clinton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 547 and it contained 255 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which ...

, U.S. *

Meridian Charter Township, Michigan Meridian Charter Township is a charter township of Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township had a population of 39,688. The township is named after the Michigan meridian, which comprises the eastern bord ...

, U.S.

Buildings

Meridian (Amtrak station) Meridian or a meridian line (from Latin ''meridies'' via Old French ''meridiane'', meaning “midday”) may refer to Science * Meridian (astronomy), imaginary circle in a plane perpendicular to the planes of the celestial equator and horizon * ...

, or Union Station, Meridian, Mississippi, U.S. *

Meridian Mall Meridian Mall is a super-regional shopping mall located in Okemos, Michigan, Okemos, Meridian Charter Township, Michigan, Meridian Township, a suburb of Lansing, Michigan, United States. It opened in 1969, the same year as its main competitor, ...

, Meridian Township, Michigan, U.S. *

Meridian Mall, Dunedin The Meridian Mall is a large shopping complex in Dunedin, New Zealand designed by ASA Crone Architects, an Australian development company. At it is the largest retail mall in the southern South Island, and one of the largest in the South Island a ...

, New Zealand *

Meridian Hall (Washington, D.C.) Meridian Hall is an historic house in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites since 1990 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., U.S. *

Meridian Manor Meridian Manor is an historic structure located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. George T. Santmyers designed the structure in the Colonial Revival style. It exemplifies the speculative mi ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., U.S. *

Meridian Mansions Meridian Mansions, also known as The Envoy, is a historic structure located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. A.H. Sonnemann was the architect for what was considered the city's finest apartment hotel ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., U.S.

Other places

Lake Meridian Lake Meridian is a fresh-water lake located in the city of Kent, Washington. One among the few lakes in King County allowing motorized boating, Lake Meridian is an urban lake, surrounded by homes and located just off the Kent-Kangley Road on K ...

, Kent, Washington, U.S. *

Meridian Creek Meridian Creek is a stream in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Colville River. Meridian Creek was so named from the fact its course is roughly parallel with the 160th meridian west. See also *List of riv ...

, a stream in Alaska, U.S. *

Meridian Glacier Meridian Glacier () is a broad glacier, long, which flows south along the west side of Godfrey Upland and joins Clarke Glacier between Behaim Peak and Elton Hill, in southern Graham Land, Antarctica. Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund of the Unit ...

, Graham Land, Antarctica *

Meridian Peak Meridian Peak is a mountain summit in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The peak is located in the Eagles Nest Wilderness, north by west ( bearing 353°) of the Town of Vail, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divid ...

, Eagles Nest Wilderness, near Vail, Colorado, U.S. *

Meridian Plantation Meridian Plantation was a quail hunting plantation in central Leon County, Florida. It was established by Arthur Lapsley in 1915. Lapsley was from Pomfret Center in Pomfret, Connecticut. Meridian Plantation had previously been Mossview Plantation ...

, a quail-hunting plantation in Leon County, Florida, U.S., established in 1915

Arts and entertainment

Print

* ''Meridian'' (novel), 1976 novel by Alice Walker * ''Meridian'' (comics), 2000–2004 comic book series published by CrossGen * Meridian (''W.I.T.C.H.''), a fictional realm in the Italian comic book series ''W.I.T.C.H.'' * ''Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism'' (est. 2000), an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed feminist journal

Film and television

* '' Meridian: Kiss of the Beast'', 1990 horror and romance film directed by Charles Band * "Meridian" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), 1994 episode of the series * "Meridian" (''Stargate SG-1''), 2002 episode of the series * ''Meridian'' (film), 2016 film noir thriller directed by Curtis Clark *

ITV Meridian ITV Meridian (previously Meridian Broadcasting) is the holder of the ITV franchise for the South and South East of England. The station was launched at 12:00 am on 1 January 1993, replacing previous broadcaster Television South, and is owned an ...

(formerly Meridian Broadcasting), ITV station for the south and south-east of England

Music

Meridian Records Meridian Records is a British independent record label based in London. Having been founded in 1977, Meridian has celebrated more than a third of a century of recording classical music in its well regarded 'natural sound'. Meridian has tradit ...

, record label *

Meridian Dawn Meridian Dawn is an international heavy metal band. History The band was conceived by vocalist Antony Hämäläinen (Armageddon, Nightrage), drummer Johan Nunez (Kamelot, Nightrage, Firewind, Marty Friedman), guitarist Brandon Johnson, bassist ...

, modern death metal band *

Meridian Green Meridian Green is a California-based folk musician, and one half of Parsons Green, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons, former drummer with The Byrds. History Green was born to folk musician Bob Gibson in Greenwich Village. Sh ...

, California-based folk musician * ''Meridian'', 1997 album by

Ian Pooley Ian Pooley (born Ian Pinnekamp in 1973) is a German record producer and DJ. While incorporating samples of various musical genres, Pooley's creations are usually classified as house or tech house with Brazilian influence. Biography Pooley's mu ...

* ''Meridian'' (Miriam Yeung album), 2007 album by Miriam Young * ''Meridian'' (album), 2012 album by Pinegrove * "Meridian", 2017 song by Odesza from ''

A Moment Apart ''A Moment Apart'' is the third studio album by the American electronic music duo Odesza, released on 8 September 2017 through Counter, Ninja Tune and the duo's own label, Foreign Family Collective. It is the duo's first album in three years aft ...

Other art

* ''Meridian'' (Hepworth), 1960 bronze sculpture by British artist Barbara Hepworth

Business

Meridian Audio Meridian Audio is a consumer audio and home theatre equipment manufacturer based in the United Kingdom. Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd founded the company in 1977 under the name Boothroyd-Stuart. In 1985 the company released a CD player under t ...

, British manufacturer of audio equipment *

Meridian Credit Union Meridian Credit Union Ltd. is a Canadian credit union. It was formed on 1 April 2005 through the merger of Niagara Credit Union and HEPCOE Credit Union. It is insured by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario. History Meridia ...

, credit union based in Ontario, Canada *

Meridian Energy Meridian Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator and retailer. The company generates the largest proportion of New Zealand's electricity, generating 35 percent of the country's electricity in the year ending December 2014, and is ...

, New Zealand electricity generation and electricity retailing company *

Nortel Meridian Nortel Meridian is a private branch exchange telephone switching system. It provides advanced voice features, data connectivity, LAN communications, computer telephony integration (CTI), and information services for communication applications ran ...

, popular PBX telephone system

Education

Meridian High School (disambiguation) Meridian High School may refer to: U.S. *Meridian High School (Idaho), Meridian, Idaho * Meridian Technical Charter High School, Meridian, Idaho * Meridian High School (Macon, Illinois), Macon, Illinois * Meridian High School (Mounds, Illinois), Mo ...

Meridian Technology Center Technology Centers, in Oklahoma, are Career and Technical schools which provide career and technology education for high school students in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The students generally spend part of each day in their respective schools purs ...

, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Transportation

Meridian (train) The British Rail Class 222 Meridian is a diesel-electric multiple-unit high-speed passenger train capable of . Twenty-seven sets were built by Bombardier Transportation in Bruges, Belgium. The Class 222 is part of the Bombardier Voyager family ...

, British Rail Class 222 trains *

Meridian (commuter rail) Meridian was between 2013 and 2020 the brand name of a regional rail service in Bavaria, Germany, operated by railway company Bayerische Oberlandbahn (BOB), owned by Transdev. Since June 2020 these services are run under the brand ''Bayerische Reg ...

, commuter rail service in Germany operated by the Bayerische Oberlandbahn * MS ''Meridian'', cruise ship constructed in 1961 * ''Meridian'' (shipwreck), sunken schooner in Lake Michigan *

Piper Meridian The Piper PA-46 Malibu and Matrix, now known as the M-Class, are a family of American light aircraft manufactured by Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach, Florida. The aircraft is powered by a single engine and has the capacity for one pilot and five ...

, turboprop model of the Piper PA-46 aircraft * Meridian LRT station, an LRT station on the Punggol LRT line East Loop in Singapore *

Meridian Airways Meridian Airways was a Ghanaian registered cargo airline (with an Air Operator Certificate Number of AOC 023) with its head office in Kotoka International Airport, Accra, and served as its main hub at Ostend-Brugge International Airport in Belgi ...

, a defunct Ghanaian airline

Other

Bill Meridian Bill Meridian is a Financial astrology, financial astrologer. He began to study astrology in 1972 as he entered Wall Street after he received his MBA at New York University, NYU. He trained as a bioenergetic Therapy, therapist with Dr. John Pierrak ...

(fl. 1972–1983), a financial astrologer *

Meridian (Chinese medicine) The meridian system (, also called channel network) is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as " qi" (''ch'i'') flows. Meridians are not real anatomical structures: scientists ...

, traditional Chinese medical theory, often employed in acupuncture *

Meridian (horse) Meridian (1908–1935) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1911 Kentucky Derby, setting a new record by running 1 miles in 2 minutes, 5 seconds. The previous record of 2:06 had been set by Lieut. Gibson in the 1900 Derby. Meridi ...

, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of 1911 Kentucky Derby *

Meridian (Nosgoth) ''Legacy of Kain'' is a series of dark fantasy action-adventure video games primarily developed by Crystal Dynamics and formerly published by Eidos Interactive, then Square Enix Europe after 2009. The first title, '' Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain' ...

, the capitol of Nosgoth in ''Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain'' *

Meridian (perimetry, visual field) Meridian (plural: "meridians") is used in perimetry and in specifying visual fields. According to IPS Perimetry Standards 1978 (2002): ''"Perimetry is the measurement of n observer'svisual functions ... at topographically defined loci in the vis ...

, polar coordinate system for the visual field *

Meridian (satellite) Meridian (Russian: Меридиан) is a family of telecommunications satellites for civil and military use developed by Russia in the 2000s placed in a Molniya Orbit and intended to replace the two last series of Molniya satellites still in activ ...

, a series of Russian military communications satellites *

Meridian F.C. Meridian Valley Park Football Club is a football club located in Charlton, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, England. Affiliated to the Kent FA, they are currently members of the and play at the Meridian Sports & Social Club. History ...

, English non-league football club *

Meridian Hospital Meridian Hospital (also spelled Meridian Hospitals) is a private hospital located in the neighbourhood of D-line in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1996 in a rented apartment complex in Diobu. In 2003, the hospital mov ...

, a private hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria