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Definition of Colatitude
1. n. The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
Definition of Colatitude
1. Noun. (astronomy) The complement, in spherical coordinates, of a latitude (the difference between a latitude and 90°). ¹
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Definition of Colatitude
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colatitude
Literary usage of Colatitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical and Spherical Astronomy: For the Use Chiefly of Students in the by Robert Main (1863)
"6), and it is there stated that it is equal to angular elevation of the celestial
pole above the horizon of the place of observation, or that the colatitude ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"H'™ have been calculated for every 5° of geographical colatitude (ie for the
above values of n') for all values of n and m from 0 to 10. ..."
3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1896)
"The north polar distances for the years 1836-47 have been corrected to colatitude
21"-83 ; those of 1849-50 to colatitude 21"-94, and those of 1851-94 to ..."
4. The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes by Isaac Watts (1813)
"Example June llth Merid. Alt. us Sun's Déclin, f. colatitude HE December llth Merid.
Alt. BV 15 Sun's Déclin. EV Щ colatitude BE- Thcn if you ..."
5. On the Cause, Date, and Duration of the Last Glacial Epoch of Geology, and by Alfred Wilks Drayson (1873)
"The latitude of a star is the least angular distance of a star from the plane of
the ecliptic, whilst the colatitude is the least angular distance of a star ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"В, ф be the radius vector, colatitude and cast longitude of a point with reference
to an origin, a polar axis and a zero-meridian ratatine with а uniform ..."
7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1868)
"The observations of Cephei 51, however, appear to give changes of colatitude
something similar to those given by the observations of Polaris. ..."
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