Latitude

Lat´i`tude

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.

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.

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.

Extent; size; amplitude; scope.

I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude.

- Locke.

(Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.

(Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

Ascending 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.

Noun	1.	latitude - the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
	2.	latitude - freedom from normal restraints in conduct; "the new freedom in movies and novels"; "allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money"
	3.	latitude - an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator Synonyms: line of latitude, parallel of latitude, parallel
	4.	latitude - scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction

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