northing

noun Navigation.

1. northward movement or deviation.
2. distance due north made on any course tending northward.

noun

1. nautical movement or distance covered in a northerly direction, esp as expressed in the resulting difference in latitude
2. astronomy a north or positive declination
3. cartography
   1. the distance northwards of a point from a given parallel indicated by the second half of a map grid reference
   2. a latitudinal grid lineCompare easting (def. 2)