English to French Meaning of meridional - méridional

Meridional :

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Definitions of meridional in English

Adjective(1) of or relating to a meridian(2) located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places

Examples of meridional in English

(1) In the pre-equatorial zone, cells were densely packed, whereas in the equatorial zone, the cells were arranged in the form of distinct meridional rows.(2) The first, known as the meridional flow pattern, circulates between the sun's equator and its poles over a period of 17 to 22 years and acts like a conveyor belt of sunspots.(3) The meridional and circular muscles antagonize the radial muscles.(4) The axial intensity distribution was calculated by integrating the region from 0.013 nm - 1 on either side of the meridional axis of the x-ray pattern.(5) Between the regions contacting leaf primordia, the peripheral zone cells are curved predominantly in the meridional direction.(6) The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation carries warm upper waters into far-northern latitudes and returns cold deep waters southward across the Equator.(7) However, the zweite Frühstück (second breakfast) eaten in various German-speaking regions is an important northerly counterpart of this meridional institution.(8) This juxtaposition of high-pressure and low-pressure systems in similar latitudes causes much more meridional airflow than is normally experienced in similar latitudes in the southern hemisphere.(9) The presence of ice sheets, together with the development of sea ice in the polar oceans, also resulted in an increase in meridional (north - south) temperature gradients.(10) Most European pre-Quaternary localities are positioned in a restricted latitudinal band, requiring dense and well-dated temporal and spatial records for meridional patterns to be detected.(11) The timing of deglaciation shows a close correspondence to increased meridional overturning of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation and attendant warming of the North Atlantic Ocean immediately after the last glacial maximum.(12) Both regions are muscular, covered with a dense sheet of radial muscles and rings of circular and meridional muscles.(13) The vigor of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is thought to be vulnerable to global warming.

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