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# latitude

«latitude» in Mova's school dictionary: **how far north or south a place is from the equator…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (latitude, latitudes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Latitude is how far north or south a place is from the equator, measured in degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#m1)

2) Lines of latitude are imaginary lines around the Earth, parallel to the equator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#m2)

3) (formal) Latitude is freedom to choose what to do or how to do it: "the teacher gave us some latitude with the topic". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, the equator is at 0 degrees latitude and the poles are at 90 degrees north and south; latitude helps explain climate: places at low latitudes are hot, high latitudes cold. On maps, latitude and longitude together give an exact position. Phrases: lines of latitude, high latitude, low latitude, latitude and longitude.

### examples

- The equator is at zero degrees latitude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#x1)
- The North Pole is at 90 degrees north latitude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#x2)
- Places at high latitudes have very cold winters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#x3)
- Find the town's latitude and longitude on the map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#x4)
- Lines of latitude run east to west. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#x5)
- Our teacher gave us some latitude in choosing a book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/#x6)

### note

Latitude goes north–south (lines run east–west); longitude goes east–west (lines run north–south). Memory trick: latitude lines are like the rungs of a ladder ("lat" — flat). Measured in degrees, from 0 to 90.

### In the corpora

- [In the northern hemisphere, the height of the Pole Star above the horizon in degrees is roughly equal to your latitude.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/11/)
- [In the middle latitudes, such as over Britain, the main winds blow from the west and are called the westerlies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/10/)
- [One degree of latitude is about 111 km, so going 2 degrees straight north is a journey of about 222 km.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/63-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks/10/)
- [Latitude was found from the height of the Sun or the Pole Star in the sky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/9/)
- [Latitude tells how far north or south a place is; longitude tells how far east or west.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «latitude» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/latitude/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.