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Meridian of a sphere

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A great circle passing through a chosen pair of antipodal poles, or the pole-to-pole half of that circle at fixed longitude. In spherical coordinates, a fixed azimuth selects such a half-circle. Meridians are special cases of a meridian of a surface of revolution and are geodesics of the sphere.

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