distance travelled or measured eastward, especially at sea:with the help of the following breeze, she ran 650 miles of her easting down
[count noun] a figure or line representing eastward distance on a map (expressed by convention as the first part of a grid reference, before northing):the Japanese sent a message that accidentally left out an easting and a northing in the plain text
easting in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of easting in the US English dictionary
