All 3 Uses of
latitude
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- A couch by midwives attended with wholesome food reposeful, cleanest swaddles as though forthbringing were now done and by wise foresight set: but to this no less of what drugs there is need and surgical implements which are pertaining to her case not omitting aspect of all very distracting spectacles in various latitudes by our terrestrial orb offered together with images, divine and human, the cogitation of which by sejunct females is to tumescence conducive or eases issue in the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of mothers when, ostensibly far gone and reproductitive, it is come by her thereto to lie in, her term up.†
Chpt 14 *
- A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown.†
Chpt 17
- Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45 degrees to the terrestrial equator.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(latitude as in: latitude and longitude) a measure of north/south (relative to the equator) on the earth -- calculated by using imaginary horizontal circles on the surface of the earth that are parallel to the equator such that 45 degrees north is half way between the equator and the north pole
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(2)
(latitude as in: given the latitude to) amount of freedom from restriction
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, latitude is used with an analogous meaning in astronomy.
Much more rarely, latitude is can more specifically reference the range of light exposures suitable to film.