different between latitude vs graticule
latitude
English
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French latitude, from Latin l?tit?d? (“breadth, width, latitude”), from l?tus (“broad, wide”), from older stl?tus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?læt.?.tju?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?læt.?.tud/, /?læt.?.tjud/
Noun
latitude (countable and uncountable, plural latitudes)
- (geography, astronomy) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
- (geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
- The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
- His parents gave him a great deal of latitude.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
- (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
- Wikipedia article on exposure latitude
- Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
Usage notes
- When used to refer to distances or imaginary lines around a planet, latitude is relative to the Earth's Equator unless another planet is specified.
Hyponyms
- ascending latitude
- geolatitude
- high latitude
- low latitude
Derived terms
- high-latitude
- isolatitude
- latitude by account
- low-latitude
- mid-latitude
Related terms
- circle of latitude
- horse latitudes
Translations
See also
- longitude
- zonal
Anagrams
- altitude
French
Etymology
From Latin l?tit?d? (“breadth, width, latitude”), from l?tus (“broad, wide”), from older stl?tus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.ti.tyd/
Noun
latitude f (plural latitudes)
- expansion, breadth
- Ce principe peut avoir une grande latitude.
- Donner trop de latitude à une proposition, à l’application d’un principe.
- Laisser beaucoup de latitude aux agents chargés d’une mission.
- Avoir toute latitude pour: avoir toute liberté pour.
- (geography) The distance from a place to the equator measured in degrees on the meridian; parallel viewing.
- 1921, Henry-D. Davray and B. Kozakiewicz (translators), H.G. Wells (author), La Guerre dans les Airs, Mercure de France, page 174:
- C’est ici que ça se passe, 30°50’ de latitude nord, 30°50’ de longitude ouest… à une journée de distance pour nous, et ils filent sud-sud-ouest à toute vapeur. À ce train-là nous ne verrons rien, […].
- 1928, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dans la mer du Groenland:
- Le Scoresby Sund est le plus vaste fjord du monde entier. Il est découpé dans la côte Orientale du Groenland entre 70° et 72° de latitude Nord et 22° et 30° de longitude Ouest de Greenwich.
- 1929, Alain Gerbault, À la poursuite du soleil, volume 1: De New-York à Tahiti:
- […] le 12 mars, par 20 degrés de latitude Nord, je rencontrai les vents alizés, je pouvais compter dorénavant sur un plus faible et agréable navigation dans les mers tropicales.
- 1921, Henry-D. Davray and B. Kozakiewicz (translators), H.G. Wells (author), La Guerre dans les Airs, Mercure de France, page 174:
- (by extension) Different areas under a given temperature due to their greater or lesser distance from the equator.
- À la différence des animaux, l’homme peut vivre sous les latitudes les plus opposées.
- (astronomy) The angle with a plane parallel to the ecliptic, the straight line that passes through a heavenly body and a particular centre on this plane.
- Latitude australe ou boréale.
- Latitude héliocentrique, géocentrique, etc.
- Latitude de Sirius.
- freedom
Antonyms
- longitude
References
- All or part of this article is from the Dictionary of the French Academy, Eighth Edition, 1932-1935, but it may have been modified since.
Further reading
- “latitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Latin l?tit?d? (“breadth, width, latitude”).
Noun
latitude f (oblique plural latitudes, nominative singular latitude, nominative plural latitudes)
- breadth
Descendants
- ? Middle English: latitude
- French: latitude
Portuguese
Noun
latitude f (plural latitudes)
- (geography, astronomy) latitude (angular distance north or south from the equator)
- (geography) latitude (imaginary line parallel to the equator)
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graticule
English
Etymology
French, from Latin cr?ticula, diminutive form of cr?tis.
Noun
graticule (plural graticules)
- A grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
- (specifically, optics, Britain) A reticle.
- (specifically, geography) The network of lines of latitude and longitude that make up a coordinate system such as the one used for the Earth.
- A nearly square or nearly rectangular region created by a graticule.
Translations
Anagrams
- curtilage, cutigeral
French
Noun
graticule m (plural graticules)
- graticule
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