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- This solar power solution will work in temperate latitudes.
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- Just put the latitude and longitude into the navigation system and it will tell us how to get there.
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They estimate the satellite will fall at about 50° north latitude.
latitude = a measure of north/south (relative to the equator) on the earth
- The name of the town is Grover's Corners, New Hampshire—just across the Massachusetts line: latitude 42 degrees 40 minutes; longitude 70 degrees 37 minutes. (source)
- A few miles of difference in latitude could mean a 180-degree difference in current direction, and no one knew where the plane had hit. (source)
- A boy has to learn his numbers, but the only proper use for them is to find your latitude with a cross-staff. (source)
- Although falling short of the length of the Mississippi-Missouri, the Nile is at the head of all rivers as regards the length of its basin, which extends through 35 degrees of latitude … (source)
- We took it, that somewhere about the 47th degree, north latitude, would be the place chosen for crossing the country between the river and the Carpathians. (source)
- --yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to? (source)
- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected. (source)
- There are many of that genus here, but this particular species usually inhabits regions south of this latitude because these waters are too cool for them.† (source)
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- Stefansson conveniently neglected to mention that many, many Indians and Eskimos have starved in the northern latitudes, as well.† (source)
- The dying are allowed a certain latitude, like children on their birthdays.† (source)
- But I can't help suspecting that all the while, her happiness may be waiting in another latitude altogether."† (source)
- Don't forget to wind your watch," or "Latitude can be measured with the fingers, if need be."† (source)
- Pretrial detainees are generally housed in local jails, where they enjoy more privileges and more latitude than convicted criminals who are sent to prison.† (source)
- He had some new idea for "optimizing positional latitude and longitude," and when the dust finally settled, I was sitting right in front of Juli Baker.† (source)
- And on the bottom is a map of the sky and on top is an aperture which is an opening shaped in a parabola and you turn it round to see a map of the sky that you can see on that day of the year from the latitude 51.† (source)
- Savannah's on the same latitude as Madeira.† (source)
- I became fascinated with 503, trying everything to find meaning in the number-numerology, map references, latitudes.† (source)
- Latitude and longitude.† (source)
- As he drifted—cruelly, by degrees and latitudes—into stillness, I rocked back on my heels and looked hard into his wrecked face.† (source)
- Legally, your mother has quite a bit of latitude.† (source)
- Perhaps they simply move from hemisphere to hemisphere looking for the warmest skies, and the birthing season coincides with their arrival in southern latitudes.† (source)
- We never give these guys one inch of latitude.† (source)
- He created the new post of director of functions and assigned Frank Millet to the job, giving him wide latitude to do what he could to boost attendance.† (source)
- But do they fall under the influence of warmer climes, or do those welcoming latitudes express something that's already been trying to make its way out?† (source)
- Not exactly a rare fruit in these latitudes.† (source)
- "Because he wants to give the starters more latitude," Mr. Goldstein said.† (source)
- It was taken in the northern latitudes.† (source)
- Latitude and longitude.† (source)
- For each city's sky he went to a deserted place that was just as far north, or south, at the same latitude basically, the same place that the city would be in a few hours, with the Earth's spin, and once he got there he pointed his camera in the same direction."† (source)
- "As to our verse location, I mus' guess we are somewhar roun' d'cays, somewhar mebbe fifteen latitude an' eighty long.† (source)
- It is a climbing ornamental vine found in temperate latitudes, and came originally from the Orient.† (source)
- Oh, sure, if you know a little astronomy, you might be able to estimate your latitude to within a few hundred miles.† (source)
- The island is remarkably temperate compared with areas of the mainland at the same latitude.† (source)
- Later he learned that the post office in these latitudes was not as reliable as that of far-off England, and that all his telegrams had vaporized en route.† (source)
- At this latitude, Africa was just the Horn: Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia.† (source)
- I, on the other hand, have more latitude.† (source)
- There was never much twilight at this latitude, and the early stars were already showing.† (source)
- Over the years he had noticed that if he stopped giving instructions or gave Niedermann too much latitude to make his own decisions, he would slip into an indolent state of indecision.† (source)
- We dare not exert our power in its full latitude.† (source)
- She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.† (source)
- An eagle appeared out of the mountain mists to the west, flying eastward on a course as unwaveringly straight as a latitude line on a map.† (source)
- Because of my homeschooling, my mom gave all of us the latitude to study the things that interested us beyond the required course load we had each year.† (source)
- This was easy: a latitude and a longitude line crossed right where Bixby would have been if anyone had bothered to put it on the map.† (source)
- There was always this inherent tension in American English: "unhemmed latitude" versus the American schoolmarm.† (source)
- The captain gave the longitude and latitude —of the encounter and his best guess of the ship's course.† (source)
- From the warm breeze, he figured he must have been adrift for hundreds of miles along a swift current that had brought him south and into warmer latitudes.† (source)
- At any rate, the substitution gave me the latitude to ask a question or two.† (source)
- Who can define it in a way that would not leave wide latitude for evasion?† (source)
- What latitude and longitude?† (source)
- 'So can I get some latitude here?† (source)
- Anyway—guideposts, he'd said, so that no matter where in the world you are, anywhere, you know the spot, you can trace it, place it by latitude and longitude.† (source)
- Most areas in the world may be placed in latitude and longitude, described chemically in their earth, sky and water, rooted and fuzzed over with identified flora and people with known fauna, and there's an end to it.† (source)
- The bleak weather that prevails in these latitudes at this time of year did little to improve my mood.† (source)
- In these latitudes.† (source)
- But one of the peculiar imbecilities of our time is the grid of morality we have placed on human behavior: so that every act of man must be measured against an arbitrary latitude of right and longitude of wrong—in exact minutes, seconds, and degree!† (source)
- "If we were in higher latitudes, your Majesty," said Drinian, "I would say it was ice.† (source)
- And then this African heat, which is so rare in this latitude.† (source)
- It's coming very evenly along the latitudes.† (source)
- When he spoke in Yazoo County, the stronghold of his opposition, the Yazoo City Herald reported that like "the lion at bay," he "conquered the prejudices of hundreds who had been led to believe that his views on certain points were better adapted to the latitude of New England than to that of Mississippi."† (source)
- I usually think of hills, creeks, deserts, beaches, degrees latitude.† (source)
- Latitude and longitude lines were laid in with hair-fine platinum wire.† (source)
- Bahrain stands on the 26° north line of latitude.† (source)
- I'll need to navigate with landmarks as well as latitude and longitude.† (source)
- As she entered the latitude and longitude of the image, she recognized the numbers.† (source)
- "Good, it has latitude and longitude lines," Venkat said.† (source)
- I just entered the edge of it, if my latitude and longitude calculations are correct.† (source)
- Of course I can do latitude and longitude!† (source)
- Thomas had given the man from Southern enough latitude; now his antics were infuriating.† (source)
- He knew their exact latitude and longitude.† (source)
- And considering the latitude of your access, it's possible you were aware that they did.† (source)
- Can you input latitude and longitude in this thing?† (source)
- We never saw a bird north of latitude twenty.† (source)
- If we just can't make it all the way to latitude sixty, well, we'll have done our best.† (source)
- All places in the same latitude seem to be getting it just about the same time.† (source)
- He says there'll be a positive reduction by the time you get to latitude fifty or sixty.† (source)
- Brisbane was two hundred and fifty miles in latitude to the north of their position then.† (source)
- North of twenty latitude we couldn't go on deck.† (source)
- Men, by nature and the decree of Providence, have a certain latitude allowed them; but fidelity to the marriage vow is surely the chief requirement in a woman.† (source)
- But the Everest region lies at 28 degrees north latitude-just beyond the tropicsand as soon as the sun rose high enough to penetrate the depths of the canyon the temperature soared.† (source)
- It was south of New York by nine degrees of latitude, which should have been enough to make a difference in the angle of the moon in the sky, I figured.† (source)
- …fellow countrymen in prayer in the back garden, under a blue sky that seemed shockingly blue, like the sky of another world, absent the airborne dust of the city where he had spent his entire life, and also peering out into space from a higher latitude, a different perch on the spinning Earth, nearer its pole than its equator, and so glimpsing the void from a different angle, a bluer angle, and as he prayed he felt praying was different here, somehow, in the garden of this house, with…† (source)
- As for latitude and longitude, my marine knowledge was strictly limited to what lived in the sea and did not extend to what cruised on top of it.† (source)
- In social studies, while we were drawing latitude/longi-tude maps, I opened my notebook and stared at the photo inside-my friend Annabeth on vacation in Washington, D.C. She was wearing jeans and a denim jacket over her orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt.† (source)
- And on the bottom is a map of the sky and on top is an aperture which is an opening shaped in a parabola and you turn it round to see a map of the sky that you can see on that day of the year from the latitude 51.5° north, which is the latitude that Swindon is on, because the largest bit of the sky is always on the other side of the earth.† (source)
- Walter couldn't escape the reality of racism, but having his own business in a growing sector of the economy gave him a latitude that many African Americans did not enjoy.† (source)
- That alone would have provided him with a reasonable excuse for being late; but there was a second development in Mishka's life that earned him even more latitude with his appointments….† (source)
- Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals—I travelled down the road of life—and I did other things with my fingers than try to measure latitude.† (source)
- This latitude's life-zone has mostly what we call minor water stealers—adapted to raiding each other for moisture, gobbling up the trace-dew.† (source)
- Of course, the prophecy left certain latitude as to whether the Mother Goddess would bring the Messiah with her or produce Him on the scene.† (source)
- I'll have to wait for another Phobos transit to get my longitude, and I'll need to wait for nightfall to sight Deneb for my latitude.† (source)
- So working out longitude requires Phobos to set, and working out latitude requires it to be night so I can sight Deneb.† (source)
- Most of this probably would not surprise and much of it might delight Walt Whitman, whom we quoted at the beginning, appealing for a language of "unhemmed latitude."† (source)
- If the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court were confined to appeals from inferior federal courts instead of allowing their extension to the State courts, it would abridge the latitude of the terms in subversion of the intent, contrary to every sound rule of interpretation.† (source)
- And if a certain longitude and latitude was all it took, there were probably other places in the world where the blue time came at midnight.† (source)
- The Missouri Compromise of 1820—whereby Missouri was admittedas a slave state, Maine (until then part of Massachusetts) as a free state, and slavery excluded in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36° 30'—left Adams in torment over the future.† (source)
- All of them were naked, and despite the warm air brought by the ship's southern latitude and the growing strength of the morning sun, their bodies shook with chills.† (source)
- When he realized he was ill, he set out for home with the hope that his sister's ministrations and Dr. Cuevas's knowledge would restore his health and youth, but he was unable to withstand the sixty days on ship and died at the latitude of Guayaquil, ravaged by fever and hallucinating about musky women and hidden treasure.† (source)
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She allows her children considerable latitude in how they lead their lives.
latitude = freedom from restriction
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- Every employee at this company is given enough latitude to solve customer problems on the spot.
- He did not want them to die of love; but with sense and temper which ought to have made him judge and feel better, he allowed himself great latitude on such points. (source)
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