noun. The difference in latitude between two positions as a result of a movement to the north.

noun. Progress toward the north.

noun. The distance of a planet from the equator northward; north declination.

noun. In navigation and surveying, the distance of latitude reckoned northward from the last point of reckoning: opposed to southing.

noun. Deviation toward the north.

noun. Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to southing.

noun. The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination.

noun. The distance north of a standard reference latitude.

noun. A distance traveled northward.

"The captain counts it a light upon one of the headlands of the Jersey shore; and he orders the helmsman (she is sailing in the eye of an easy westerly breeze) to give her a couple of points more "northing"; and the yards and sheets are trimmed accordingly."

easting  

false northing  

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