Word Meanings - COLATITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.

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• NINETY
  Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
• DIFFERENCE
  An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency. (more info) 1. The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or
• COMPLEMENTARY
  Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles , two angles whose sum is 90°.
• COMPLEMENT
  A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity. 5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser. (more info) 1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• LATITUDE
  Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian. (more info) 1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. Sir H.
• COMPLEMENTAL
  1. Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. "Complemental ceremony." Prynne. 2. Complimentary; courteous. Shak. Complemental air , the air which can be drawn into the lungs in addition to the tidal air, by the deepest
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• INDIFFERENCE
  1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance. 2. Passableness; mediocrity. 3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice,
• COLATITUDE
  The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
• PLATITUDE
  1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley. 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite,