Latitude > Related Articles
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
< Latitude
- See also pages that link to Latitude or to this page.
Contents |
Parent topics
Subtopics
Other related topics
Bot-suggested topics
Auto-populated based on Special:WhatLinksHere/Latitude. Needs checking by a human.
- Arctic Ocean [r]: The sea around the Earth's North pole. [e]
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy [r]: (1789 – 1857) prominent French mathematician, one of the pioneers of rigor in mathematics and complex analysis. [e]
- Biome [r]: Major regional or global biotic community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate. [e]
- Climate [r]: The overall weather pattern for an extended period for any defined geographical location which may be over any size of area up to and including the entire Earth. [e]
- Compass [r]: A device which has the basic function of displaying a bearing for navigation. [e]
- Declination [r]: Angular distance to a point on a celestial object, measured north or south from the celestial equator. [e]
- Ecliptic [r]: Great circle that apparent orbit of Sun makes on celestial sphere. [e]
- Geographic Information System [r]: Combined database and mapping system for the capture, storage, and manipulation of geographic data. [e]
- Global Navigation Satellite System [r]: A system which allows small electronic devices to determine their location (Longitude, Latitude, and Altitude) as well as time with an accuracy of up to a few centimetres using time signals transmitted along a line of sight by radio from satellites. [e]
- Kilometre [r]: An SI unit of length, equal to 1000 metres, commonly used for measuring distances on the earth's surface. [e]
- Longitude [r]: Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds. [e]
- Mile [r]: A unit of distance, equal to 5280 ft (1609.344 m), used in the Imperial System of Units. [e]
- Nautical mile [r]: A unit of distance approximately equal to to one minute of arc of latitude, now defined as being exactly 1852 metres. [e]
- New Zealand [r]: Country in Oceania, in the South Pacific and belonging to the Commonwealth. [e]
- Spherical polar coordinates [r]: Angular coordinates on a sphere: longitude angle φ, colatitude angle θ [e]
- Sundial [r]: An instrument for measuring time, using the position of the sun in the sky. [e]
- Tropic [r]: Either of two parallels of latitude on the earth, one 23°27′ north of the equator and the other 23°27′ south of the equator, representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead. [e]
- Wristwatch [r]: Timepiece designed to be worn around the wrist. [e]
- Yard [r]: 1 yard is equal to 3 foot is 36 inch, is 0,9144 m. [e]
