latitude : Idioms & Phrases

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Ascending latitude

  • (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson.
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Ascending latitude, Circle of latitude, Geographical latitude

  • etc. See under Ascending. Circle, etc.
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celestial latitude

  • noun (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
    declination; dec.
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Circle of latitude

  • . (a) (Astron.) A great circle perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, passing through its poles. (b) (Spherical Projection) A small circle of the sphere whose plane is perpendicular to the axis.
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Degree of latitude

  • (Geog.), on the earth, the distance on a meridian between two parallels of latitude whose latitudes differ from each other by one degree. This distance is not the same on different parts of a meridian, on account of the flattened figure of the earth, being 68.702 statute miles at the equator, and 69.396 at the poles.
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Geocentric latitude

  • (of place) the angle included between the radius of the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in distinction from geographic latitude. It is a little less than the geographic latitude.
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Geographic latitude

  • (of a place), the angle included between a line perpendicular or normal to the level surface of water at rest at the place, and the plane of the equator; differing slightly from the geocentric latitude by reason of the difference between the earth's figure and a true sphere.
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Heliocentric place, latitude, longitude

  • etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc., of the body as viewed from the sun.
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High latitude

  • (Geog.), one designated by the higher figures; consequently, a latitude remote from the equator.
  • that part of the earth's surface near either pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle.
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horse latitude

  • noun either of two belts or regions near 30 degrees north or 30 degrees south; characterized by calms and light-baffling winds
    horse latitude.
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Horse latitudes

  • noun either of two belts or regions near 30 degrees north or 30 degrees south; characterized by calms and light-baffling winds
    horse latitude.
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  • a space in the North Atlantic famous for calms and baffling winds, being between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade winds. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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line of latitude

  • noun an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
    latitude; line of latitude; parallel.
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Low latitude

  • that part of the earth's surface which is near the equator.
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lunar latitude

  • noun an imaginary line around the moon parallel to its equator
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Parallel of latitude

  • noun an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
    latitude; line of latitude; parallel.
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  • . (a) (Geog.) See def. 6. above. (b) (Astron.) One of the small circles of the sphere, parallel to the ecliptic.
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Refraction of latitude, longitude, declination, right ascension

  • etc., the change in the apparent latitude, longitude, etc., of a heavenly body, due to the effect of atmospheric refraction.
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