line of longitude vs prime meridian

line of longitude and prime meridian both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
line of longitude	Yes	No	No	No
prime meridian	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prime meridian is a hyponym of line of longitude; that is, prime meridian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than line of longitude:

line of longitude: an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
prime meridian: meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)

Other hyponyms of line of longitude include observer's meridian, magnetic meridian.

line of longitude (noun)	prime meridian (noun)
an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator	meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)

line of longitude vs prime meridian

line of longitude and prime meridian both are nouns.

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