Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above
one third part. --Sir H.
Wotton.
2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence,
looseness; laxity; independence.
In human actions there are no degrees and precise
natural limits described, but a latitude is
indulged. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.;
extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles,
in the latitude of monkish relations. --Fuller.
4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
I pretend not to treat of them in their full
latitude. --Locke.
5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured
on a meridian.
6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the
ecliptic.
{Ascending latitude}, {Circle of latitude}, {Geographical
latitude}, etc. See under {Ascending}. {Circle}, etc.
{High latitude}, that part of the earth's surface near either
pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the
antarctic circle.
{Low latitude}, that part of the earth's surface which is
near the equator.
{Heliocentric parallax}. See under {Parallax}.
{Heliocentric place}, {latitude}, {longitude}, etc. (of a
heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc.,
of the body as viewed from the sun.