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Definition of Line of latitude

1. Noun. An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Of Latitude

Literary usage of Line of latitude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1860)
"The British Treaty—Prenden*1» Message. having ascertained that the line heretofore received as the true line of latitude between those points was erroneous, ..."

2. The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to by Abiel Holmes (1829)
"The line was run from the northeast comer of the state of Connecticut on the latitude of 42° 3' north lat. as the first line of latitude. ..."

3. The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to by Abiel Holmes (1829)
"The line was run from the northeast corner of the state of Connecticut on the latitude of 42° 3' north lat. as the first line of latitude. ..."

4. Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of the State of California by Henry Jacob Labatt (1858)
"The line of latitude in the north, which, neither in the grant or on Hie map ... How could a northern boundary of a tract of land be a line of latitude and ..."

5. The American Admiralty: Its Jurisdiction and Practice, with Practical Forms by Erastus Cornelius Benedict (1910)
"From that line of latitude to a line drawn across the river at Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the Southern District of New York has jurisdiction over the eastern ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise of the Application of Trigonometry to Orthographic by John Farrar (1840)
"For the line of latitude, place a ruler on A and the several divisions of CD, and note the intersections made on the arc BD. With one foot of the compasses' ..."

7. Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. by Thomas Smyth (1910)
"... just as the angle formed by the line of latitude and the line of migration is acute, the approach made by a moving population towards any particular ..."

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