latitudinal

[ lat-i-tood-n-l, -tyood- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to latitude.

Other Words From

• lati·tudi·nal·ly adverb
• inter·lati·tudi·nal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of latitudinal¹

1535–45; < Latin lātitūdin- (stem of lātitūdō ) latitude + -al ¹

Example Sentences

It can include demographic, interest data and latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates showing people’s precise locations.

From Digiday

The Wilson snipe migrates here to but little extent, and these migrations are altitudinal rather than latitudinal.

From Project Gutenberg

Spurs from the Caucasus and from the Armenian highlands fill up the broad latitudinal depression between them.

From Project Gutenberg

The variation becomes similarly more pronounced in the latitudinal direction.

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The seven climates adopted by Idrisi are erroneously supposed to be equal in latitudinal extent.

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Since ZOQ is a right angle, it follows that the sum of the polar distance and the latitudinal co-ordinates is always 90.

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