latitude vs longitude
Definitions
noun
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
- freedom from normal restraints in conduct
Examples
Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee.
The principle of the itinerary engine is simple: from a departure address and an arrival address, or from longitude/latitude coordinates, Maporama International's servers calculate an optimized itinerary, respecting several constraints: the shortest or the more rapid itinerary, a pedestrian or car itinerary, a multimodal itinerary
Definitions
noun
- the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
Examples
The liquid crystal display crept to latitude 51 O4" 58.23 ' north, longitude Olo 23 ' O2.22 ' east.
That's the instant the sun is aligned with the degree line of longitude, or the prime meridian - also called the Greenwich Meridian.
By agreement, the longitude passing through Greenwich of Observatory is called the prime meridian.
