Meridian
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Image:Prime meridian.jpg Meridian is:
- Meridian (astronomy): an imaginary circle perpendicular to the horizon.
- Meridian (Chinese medicine): an important concept in traditional Chinese medicine.
- Meridian (geography): either half or a full great circle that connects the Earth's poles.
- Meridian (perimetry, visual field): a polar coordinate system for the visual field.
- The name of some places in the United States of America:
- Meridian is a fictional place in the W.I.T.C.H. comic book and TV series.
- Meridian is also a novel by Alice Walker.
- Meridian Broadcasting has been the ITV station for the south of England since 1992.
- Meridian Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generation and electricity retailing company.
- Meridian was a comic book series published by CrossGen in the early 2000s, and was the name of a city-state in that comic.
- Meridian is the name of a line of business telecommunication products produced and marketed by Nortel Networks.
- Meridian is also a term used by the Public Land Survey System in the United States.
- Meridian is the Capital of Nosgoth in the Legacy of Kain series of video games.
- DJ Meridian is a Drum and Bass musician in New York.
- Meridian 59, an online game.
- The British Rail Class 222 trains are known as Meridians and the the services they are used on are named Midland Mainline Meridian services.
