east-west direction


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Noun1.east-west direction - in a direction parallel with lines of latitude
direction, way - a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"
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The porphyry appears to be syn-mineral and has an elongated axis in the east-west direction along with a larger intrusive mass as defined by drilling located to the north of SCP-15.
Works completed included transforming a signalised junction into a flyover to increase the street capacity from 3,000 vehicles to 10,000 vehicles per hour in the East-West direction of Al Yalayes Street.
There are the prospects for partnership in the field of transport in terms of developing transit and transport corridors between Asia and Europe in the East-West direction with an access to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea and to the markets in the Middle East.
There are the prospects for partnership in the field of transport in terms of developing transit and transport corridors between Asia and Europe in the East-West direction with access to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Caspian Sea, Black Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea and to the markets in the Middle East.
The strike of the high-grade mineralized Patterson Lake tread lies in an east-west direction, from west to east, the high grade zones discovered include R1515W, R840W, R00E, R780E and R1620E.
Investments and substantial efforts are needed to upgrade the capacity of border crossings in Poland and develop the country's railway infrastructure in the East-West direction. However, Poland does not invest in China-EU routes yet but channels all its resources into railway routes linking the Baltic ports with the south of Europe (North-South).
For cultivation of the young plants, dad used a one-horse, one-row walking cultivator, going first in the north-south direction and then in the east-west direction. Usually the crops received three or four of those cultivations.
Today, both the North-South direction and the East-West direction are being developed in the country.
They stretched Earth's crust in an east-west direction, forming long north-south mountain ranges with wide basins in between.
In a medium-sized scope, they form an uneven pairing elongated in an east-west direction. NGC 2207 is distinctly larger, a 4' x 2' glow with a tiny stellar core.