easting noun. ['i:stɪŋ] E17.
[from EAST + -ING¹.]
1. Chiefly Nautical. Distance travelled or measured eastward. E17.

2. Cartography. Distance eastward from a point of origin (freq. from the south-west corner of a map); a figure representing this, expressed by convention as the first part of a grid reference (usu. in pl. or more fully easting coordinate). Cf. NORTHING 2. M18.

3. Easterly tendency; a running or shifting eastward. M19.

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