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LATITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("latitude" is a kind of...):
ambit; compass; orbit; range; reach; scope (an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:)
Derivation:
latitudinarian (unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("latitude" is a kind of...):
angular distance (the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer)
Derivation:
latitudinal (of or relating to latitudes north or south)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
Synonyms:
latitude; line of latitude; parallel; parallel of latitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("latitude" is a kind of...):
line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "latitude"):
polar circle (a line of latitude at the north or south poles)
horse latitude (either of two belts or regions near 30 degrees north or 30 degrees south; characterized by calms and light-baffling winds)
tropic (either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics)
Derivation:
latitudinal (of or relating to latitudes north or south)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Freedom from normal restraints in conduct
Example:
allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("latitude" is a kind of...):
liberty (freedom of choice)
Derivation:
latitudinarian (unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion))
Context examples:
Period during which polar ice extends to much lower latitudes than normal.
(Ice Age, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
This tropical widening process is slow, however, expanding only 0.5 to 1 degree in latitude every 10 years.
(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)
These include complex hydrocarbons previously only seen at high northern latitudes.
(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)
During this period, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun and winter snow and ice are still on the ground in the higher latitudes.
(Earthshine, NASA)
He never allowed them any latitude.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Things look a bit different from the latitude of London, young fellah my lad.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By midday, though we were well up in the northerly latitudes, the heat was sickening.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
About an hour before we saw the pirates I had taken an observation, and found we were in the latitude of 46 N. and longitude of 183.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The storm was observed to affect the ionosphere in all of Earth's northern latitudes.
(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)
With Alaska's warming climate, forests are moving upward to higher elevations and northward to higher latitudes.
(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)
