Căutare în Webster - Dicționarul explicativ al limbii engleze

Pentru căutare rapidă introduceți minim 3 litere.

 

LATITUDE - Definiția din dicționar

Traducere: română


Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.

Lat"i*tude (?), n. [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.] 1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.
[1913 Webster]

Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. Sir H. Wotton.
[1913 Webster]

2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence.
[1913 Webster]

In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]

3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
[1913 Webster]

No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles, in the latitude of monkish relations. Fuller.
[1913 Webster]

4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
[1913 Webster]

I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude. Locke.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.
[1913 Webster]

6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
[1913 Webster]

Ascending latitude, Circle of latitude, Geographical 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.
[1913 Webster]