latitude

nounfreedom, room to move; scope

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "breadth," from Old French latitude (13c.) and directly from Latin latitudo "breadth, width, extent, size," from latus "wide," from PIE root *stele- "to spread" (cf. Old Church Slavonic steljo "to spread out," Armenian lain "broad"). Geographical sense also is from late 14c., literally "breadth" of a map of the known world. Figurative sense of "allowable degree of variation" is early 15c. Related: Latitudinal.

Example Sentences for latitude

Latitude 25 degrees 52 minutes from mean of two observations.

By meridian altitude of sun, camp is in latitude 31 degrees 53 minutes South.

By observation, the camp was in latitude 31 degrees 42 minutes South.

Latitude of camp 26 degrees 42 minutes 43 seconds by Regulus.

The tracks may be Mr. Giles's, as I cannot think Mr. Gosse could be out in his latitude.

Camped on a gully with some old feed in the flat, in latitude 27 degrees 49 minutes.

But we had not reached the latitude of Congo according to his map.

Our passage from Para was good until the brig reached the latitude of Bermuda.

In 1819, Gauss measured a degree of latitude between Gottingen and Altona.

Sharks abound in this latitude, and I have seen several about the reef since we went in.

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