north-south direction

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   in a direction parallel with lines of longitude

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Questions about north-south direction

What does north-south direction mean?

north-south direction means "in a direction parallel with lines of longitude".

Is north-south direction a common word?

north-south 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.