About The Word Latitude
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Latitude
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What's The Definition Of Latitude?
[n] scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
[n] the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself [n] an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator [n] freedom from normal restraints in conduct; "the new freedom in movies and novels"; "allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money" Synonyms | Synonyms for Latitude: line of latitude | parallel | parallel of latitude Related Terms | Find terms related to Latitude: abscissa | aeronautical chart | air space | altitude | ample scope | amplitude | Antarctic Zone | Arctic Circle | Arctic Zone | astronomical chart | atlas | azimuth | azimuthal equidistant projection | azimuthal projection | beam | blank check | breadth | broad gauge | broad-mindedness | broadness | carte blanche | Cartesian coordinates | cartographer | cartography | celestial chart | celestial globe | chart | chorographer | chorography | clearance | climate | climatic chart | clime | conic projection | contour line | contour map | cylindrical coordinates | cylindrical projection | declination | distance across | ecumenicalism | ecumenicism | ecumenicity | ecumenism | elbowroom | equator | equator coordinates | expanse | extent | field | free course | free hand | free play | free scope | Frigid Zones | full scope | full swing | fullness | general reference map | globe | gnomonic projection | graphic scale | grid line | hachure | headroom | heliographic chart | horse latitudes | hydrographic chart | index | isoline | Lambert conformal projection | large-mindedness | layer tint | leeway | legend | long rope | longitude | longitude in arc | maneuvering space | map | map maker | map projection | mapper | margin | Mercator projection | meridian | Miller projection | no holds barred | noninsularity | open space | ordinate | parallel | photogrammetrist | photogrammetry | photomap | phototopography | physical map | play | polar coordinates | political map | polyconic projection | prime meridian | projection | range | relief map | representative fraction | right ascension | road map | roaring forties | room | room to spare | rope | scale | scope | sea room | sinusoidal projection | space | spacious mind | span | spare room | special map | spread | subtropics | swing | terrain map | terrestrial globe | the line | thematic map | tolerance | topographer | topographic chart | topography | Torrid Zone | transportation map | tropic | Tropic of Cancer | Tropic of Capricorn | tropics | unbigotedness | unhideboundness | unparochialism | unprovincialism | Variable Zones | way | weather chart | weather map | wide berth | wide-mindedness | wideness | width | zone See Also | ambit | angular distance | compass | horse latitude | liberty | line | orbit | polar circle | range | reach | scope | tropic Latitude In Webster's Dictionary \Lat"i*tude\, n. [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus
broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.]
1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a
given point or line; breadth; width.
Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above
one third part. --Sir H.
Wotton.
2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence,
looseness; laxity; independence.
In human actions there are no degrees and precise
natural limits described, but a latitude is
indulged. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.;
extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles,
in the latitude of monkish relations. --Fuller.
4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
I pretend not to treat of them in their full
latitude. --Locke.
5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured
on a meridian.
6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the
ecliptic.
{Ascending latitude}, {Circle of latitude}, {Geographical
latitude}, etc. See under {Ascending}. {Circle}, etc.
{High latitude}, that part of the earth's surface near either
pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the
antarctic circle.
{Low latitude}, that part of the earth's surface which is
near the equator.
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