Synonyms:
latitude
Meaning: the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
Usage examples
I can speak more precisely as to the place; though in this I must be allowed latitude.
"WE ARE ON EARTHQUAKE ISLAND." He gave the longitude and latitude. "COME QUICKLY OR WE WILL BE ENGULFED IN THE SEA!
This exhibition occurred in Central New York, a latitude in which the Aurora Borealis is seldom seen with so much splendor.
In the latitude of New York and southward it hatches, as a rule, five or six broods in a season, with from four to six young in a brood.
Night had already fallen, because in this low latitude the sun sets quickly, without any twilight. I could see Gueboroa Island only dimly.
He therefore put out to sea, reached the 38 degrees of north latitude, and landed on the shore of the Bay of San Francisco, which had been discovered three years previously by Bodega.
The doctor watched him with a smile; and, while Joe went on, he took the bearings, and found that the missionary's grave lay in twenty-two degrees twenty-three minutes east longitude, and four degrees fifty-five minutes north latitude.
The latitude of the workshop has enabled the spinstress to follow the inspiration of her instinct without serious obstacles; and the result is a masterpiece of symmetry and elegance, if we allow for a few angularities demanded by the suspension-points.
On the 13th of October, 1579, Drake arrived in latitude 8 degrees north, at a group of islands of which the inhabitants had their ears much lengthened by the weight of the ornaments suspended to them; their nails were allowed to grow, and appeared to serve as defensive weapons, while their teeth, "black as ship's pitch," contracted this colour from the use of the betel-nut.
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