east-west direction

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   in a direction parallel with lines of latitude

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Questions about east-west direction

What does east-west direction mean?

east-west direction means "in a direction parallel with lines of latitude".

Is east-west direction a common word?

east-west direction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.