latitude / ˈlæt ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

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latitude 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Geography. the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point.a place or region as marked by this distance.
  2. freedom from narrow restrictions; freedom of action, opinion, etc.: He allowed his children a fair amount of latitude.
  3. Astronomy. celestial latitude. galactic latitude.
  4. Photography. the ability of an emulsion to record the brightness values of a subject in their true proportion to one another, expressed as the ratio of the amount of brightness in the darkest possible value to the amount of brightness in the brightest: a latitude of 1 to 128.

latitude 近义词

n. 名词 noun

freedom, room to move; scope

更多latitude例句

  1. “Permafrost is a feature that has been part of the underground landscape in high latitudes for a long time,” says Sawyer at Ohio State.
  2. As the MJO moves across and out of the Maritime Continent, it triggers stronger circulation patterns that push air toward higher latitudes.
  3. For example, you can add a metric structure to the surface of a ball, like longitude and latitude lines on a globe.
  4. Occasionally, designers are granted the creative latitude to create mascots from the ground up, in any shape or taxonomy.
  5. The latitude where this forest once existed, 82° S, is a paleolatitude, Gramling says.
  6. Normally at high latitude you feel really unwell, but I drank it and felt rejuvenated.
  7. A judge there would have wide latitude in sentencing and could send the colonel to prison.
  8. The longitude between Queens and the Kremlin gave Channel One some latitude.
  9. The NSA might gain additional latitude when the software it wants to exploit is no longer supported by its parent company.
  10. To be sure, this is fiction, and we must give the screenwriters wide latitude.
  11. It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
  12. The French navigator, De Pages, passed the 81st degree of north latitude, in an attempt to reach the pole.
  13. Between 1° and 2°, or 3° North latitude, frequent changes in the weather are very common.
  14. From 2° to 3° South latitude the wind is very irregular, and frequently excessively violent.
  15. Between 10° and 20° South latitude we again met with very peculiar prevalent winds.