Definition of latitude

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Latitude (n.) Extent; size; amplitude; scope.

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Sable :: Sable (n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur..
Latitudinous :: Latitudinous (a.) Having latitude, or wide extent..
Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width..
Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
Platitude :: Platitude (n.) The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language..
Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian..
Tropic :: Tropic (n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side..
Height :: Height (n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.
Platitudinarian :: Platitudinarian (n.) One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms..
Latitudinal :: Latitudinal (a.) Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.
Platitudinize :: Platitudinize (v. i.) To utter platitudes or truisms.
Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.
Atmo :: Atmo (n.) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0ยก Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris..
Commonplace :: Commonplace (n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
Antoecians :: Antoecians (n. pl) Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator..
Latitude :: Latitude (n.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
Colatitude :: Colatitude (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees..
Low :: Low (superl.) Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes..
Sextant :: Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant..
Chorology :: Chorology (n.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc..
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