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noun

Northing n.

(Surv. & Navigation) Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; opposed to southing.

(Astron.) The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Northing" Quotes from Famous Books

... although of course I knew nothing of the position of the districts where whales were to be looked for. Gradually we crept northward, the weather improving every day as we left the "roaring forties" astern. While thus making northing we had several fine catches of porpoises, and saw many rorquals, but sperm whales appeared to have left the locality. However, the "old man" evidently knew what he was about, as we were not now cruising, but making a direct passage ...

— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen

... mostly from the westward, or nearly dead in our teeth, so that it was only toward the tail end of them, just when they were dying out, that we were able to bring the little hooker to the wind for half an hour or so, and make a few miles of northing. And when it was not blowing with hurricane strength it was usually just the opposite: a flat calm, with a black, lowering, overcast sky, moist, steamy, overpowering heat, heavy storms of thunder and lightning, torrential downpours of tepid ...

— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood