Meridian

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Meridian may refer to:

Contents 1 Earth science 2 United States geography 3 Arts and entertainment 4 Business 5 Education 6 Transportation 7 Other 8 See also

[edit] Earth science

• Meridian (astronomy), imaginary circle perpendicular to the celestial equator and horizon
• Meridian (geography), imaginary line on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole
• Prime Meridian, the meridian at which longitude is defined to be 0° on the Earth's surface.
• Principal meridian, the meridian on which a region is surveyed, under the Dominion Land Survey in Canada or the Public Land Survey System in the United States

[edit] United States geography

• Meridian, California
• Meridian, Colorado
• Meridian, Florida
• Meridian, Idaho
• Meridian, Mississippi
• Meridian, New York
• Meridian, Oklahoma
  • Meridian, Logan County, Oklahoma
  • Meridian, Stephens County, Oklahoma
• Meridian, Pennsylvania
• Meridian, Seattle, Washington
• Meridian, Texas
• Meridian Township, Clinton County, Illinois
• Meridian Charter Township, Michigan

[edit] Arts and entertainment

Comics

• Meridian (comics), comic book series published by CrossGen in the early 2000s
• Meridian (W.I.T.C.H.), a fictional realm in the Italian comic book series, W.I.T.C.H.

Films

• Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, 1990 movie

Games

• Meridian 59, online game
• Meridian (Nosgoth), the capitol of Nosgoth in Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain

Literature

• Meridian (novel), novel by Alice Walker
• Rue Meridian, character from The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series and High Druid of Shannara series by Terry Brooks

Music

• Meridian Green, California-based folk musician
• Meridian Records, a record label

Television

• "Meridian" (DS9 episode), third season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "Meridian" (Stargate SG-1), episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
• Meridian Broadcasting, ITV station for the south and south-east of England

[edit] Business

• Meridian Audio, Ltd., British manufacturer of audio equipment
• Meridian Bank, bank based in Serbia
• Meridian Energy Limited, New Zealand electricity generation and electricity retailing company

[edit] Education

• Meridian High School (disambiguation page)
• Meridian Technology Center, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

[edit] Transportation

• Meridian (train), British Rail Class 222 trains
• MS Meridian, cruise ship constructed in 1961

[edit] Other

• Channel (Chinese medicine), or "Meridian"
• Meridian KSI, a commercial Learning Management System product
• Meridian (perimetry, visual field), polar coordinate system for the visual field
• Meridian SL-1, the first practical all-digital telephone switch aimed at the smaller PBX market
• One Meridian Plaza fire, an office building that burned down in Philadelphia, PA in 1991
• Nortel Meridian, a popular PBX by Nortel Networks

[edit] See also

• Meridian Mall (disambiguation page)