different between latitude vs leeway

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)

1. (geography, astronomy) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
2. (geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
3. The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.

   His parents gave him a great deal of latitude.

4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
5. (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

6. 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)

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. 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)

1. breadth

Descendants

• ? Middle English: latitude
• French: latitude

Portuguese

Noun

latitude f (plural latitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy) latitude (angular distance north or south from the equator)
2. (geography) latitude (imaginary line parallel to the equator)

English

Etymology

lee (“side away from the wind”) +? way

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?li??we?]
• Rhymes: -i?we?

Noun

leeway (countable and uncountable, plural leeways)

1. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.

   Synonyms: freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, wiggle room, elbowroom

   • 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ?ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,^[1]

     Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
3. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

Related terms

• lee
• leeward

Translations

References

• “leeway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.