Latitude vs Perioecus - What's the difference?
latitude | perioecus |
(geography, astronomy) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
(geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circle) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
(astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
(photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
* Wikipedia article on (exposure latitude)
Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
(obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
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*:How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci , there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.
As nouns the difference between latitude and perioecus
is that latitude is the angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point while perioecus is someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.latitude
English
(wikipedia latitude)Noun
(en noun)- His parents gave him a great deal of latitude .
