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Kilogrammetre :: Kilogrammetre (n.) A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris..

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc..

Salpa :: Salpa (n.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix..

Tropical :: Tropical (n.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases..

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence..

Platitudinarian :: Platitudinarian (n.) One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms..

Shorten :: Shorten (v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold..

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

Solstice :: Solstice (v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion..

Place :: Place (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude..

Colatitude :: Colatitude (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees..

Latitudinal :: Latitudinal (a.) Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

Line :: Line (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map..

Platitude :: Platitude (n.) A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace..

Tropic :: Tropic (n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..

Commonplace :: Commonplace (v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

Glaucus :: Glaucus (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white..

Paraphrase :: Paraphrase (v. t.) To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language..

Latitudinous :: Latitudinous (a.) Having latitude, or wide extent..

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