What's the difference between latitude and meridian?

Latitude


Definition:

  • (n.) Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.
  • (n.) Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence.
  • (n.) Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
  • (n.) Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
  • (n.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.
  • (n.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A change in the male:female incidence ratio with latitude was also found--women have significantly higher incidence rates at higher latitudes, but similar rates to men at lower latitudes.
  • (2) However, this relationship, at least among North Amerindian populations, may be more apparent than real since both mean heterozygosity and the level of sociocultural organization are significantly negatively correlated with latitude.
  • (3) Between 1982 and 1987 the male:female incidence ratio in high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere showed an excess of cases in women, a finding which we believe has not been reported before.
  • (4) However, within some of the Nordic countries (Finland, Norway, and Sweden) there were regional variations not compatible with the above "latitude rule."
  • (5) Patients who required seclusion and restraint had significant latitude to determine the timing of their release from the interventions and met with staff one hour and 24 hours after their release to explore alternatives to aggression.
  • (6) "Those would be the high latitudes like the Arctic and the lower latitudes like the tropics.
  • (7) Detector latitude is an important variable that should be monitored or controlled in investigations that compare reader performance using conventional and digital systems.
  • (8) The ambiguity of the definition of "threat" under the law grants so much latitude that it isn't hard to see why George Zimmerman, Martin's killer, would argue he felt threatened by what he described as a black man wearing a hoodie who appeared – to Zimmerman's limited knowledge – to be on drugs.
  • (9) The DWP said regulations had been drafted in a minimal fashion to give job centres and organisations involved in getting the unemployed into work flexibility and latitude for innovation.
  • (10) That said, a year or two ago I watched Pappy’s gleeful sketches (on a stage about a mile away) at Latitude and it seemed like something stretching back to music hall.
  • (11) There was no statistically significant difference between the means of the measured values of the polarcardiogram and of the corresponding polar components calculated from the three scalar ECG concerning all twenty items, namely spatial magnitude, magnitudes in each plane, each longitude and latitude at the time of the spatial maximum QRS and T vectors, except alpha-longitude.
  • (12) Rates for non-melanocytic skin cancer showed a gradient with respect to latitude within Australia.
  • (13) Tahyna virus (Bunyaviridae, Bunyavirus, the California encephalitis complex) was isolated from Aedes communis complex mosquitoes collected at the border of the north-taiga landscape zone (in latitude 68 degrees North and longitude 33 degrees East) at the Kolsky peninsula (the Murmansk region).
  • (14) Their distribution indicates 3 distinct major zones: the Qing Zang Gaoyuan is dominated by Ligula; the rest of China, with the exception of a crescent area in Guangdong Province bordering part of the southern coast down to Hainan Island, is dominated by Digramma; and a saddle-shaped corridor, north of 42 degrees N latitude, is characterized by a mix of both genera.
  • (15) Study 1 provided initial support for the importance of differential construal in people's consensus estimates by showing that larger false consensus effects tend to be obtained on items that permit the most latitude for subjective construal.
  • (16) No 10 recognises that Clegg is running a differentiation strategy before his own conference, and has to be given some latitude.
  • (17) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
  • (18) This represents a major range extension of Miocene Hominoidea in Africa to latitude 20 degrees S. The holotype, a right mandibular corpus preserving the crowns of the P4-M3, partial crown and root of the P3, partial root of the canine, alveoli for all four incisors, and partial alveolus for the left canine, was found during paleontological explorations of karst-fill breccias in the Otavi region of northern Namibia.
  • (19) Greater climatic seasonality at this latitude results in more predictable fruiting patterns.
  • (20) It’s not an entirely surprising thing to Canadians to watch each other revert to past international connections – a multicultural country like this one tends to allow a lot of latitude when defining one’s nationality.

Meridian


Definition:

  • (a.) Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
  • (a.) Midday; noon.
  • (a.) Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
  • (a.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
  • (a.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The relations between meridian with peripheral nervous and analgesic mechanism had been explored.
  • (2) In the background examinations (and for the well-adapting subjects in examinations made after meridian crossing in flight), the blood pressure, heart rate, and capillaroscopic picture were recorded during 3 days 5 times a day.
  • (3) Thus, the 2 sides of the CVP meridian have different morphogenetic properties and such differences are determinative in the asymmetrical fine-positioning of the CVP.
  • (4) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
  • (5) The EWRGP group showed a mean flattening in corneal curvature of 0.11 and 0.15 mm in the flattest and steepest corneal meridians, respectively.
  • (6) Now, following parental objections, the school board in the Meridian district in Idaho has voted to remove it from the high-school supplemental reading list, where it has been used since 2010, reported local paper the Idaho Statesman.
  • (7) The distribution of response intensities from one meridian to another is adequately described by a sine wave function.
  • (8) While the diameter of the red rod outer segments varies with their location along the vertical meridian of the retina, the incisure number also changes similarly.
  • (9) The multimedia file server manager station is built around a PC-AT compatible with a Northern Telecom Meridian SL-1ST digital PBX and a Meridian Mail digital voice messaging system.
  • (10) A right hemispatial field advantage emerged, as well as an advantage for targets above as compared to below the horizontal meridian.
  • (11) The best correlation was established between the seroimmune response and the activity of the acupuncture points on meridians X and I (a positive correlation) and on meridians III, VIII and XI (a negative correlation).
  • (12) The results are in agreement with data on visual callosal connections in animals and confirm previous psychophysical findings (Berardi & Fiorentini, 1987) indicating the particular properties of the interhemispheric cross-talk between symmetric regions of the visual field astride the vertical meridian in man.
  • (13) There were no inhibitory after-effects when the two stimuli appeared on opposite sides of the vertical or horizontal meridian.
  • (14) It was demonstrated that the calcium ion concentration was significant higher than that in the location of non-meridian and non-acupoint.
  • (15) Simple onset response time (RT) experiments, previously shown to exhibit binocular summation effects for white stimuli along the horizontal meridian, were performed for red and green stimuli along 5 oblique meridians.
  • (16) Most neurons in the inferior temporal cortex of the rhesus monkeys have visual receptive fields that extend across the vertical meridian well into both the contralateral and ipsilateral visual half-fields.
  • (17) This report evaluates the effect of meridian acupuncture treatment on trigeminal neuralgia.
  • (18) Current software displays include a true topographic map, a spherical subtraction map in both relative and absolute scales, and a meridian analysis that is adapted to display refractive photoablative surgery.
  • (19) It's also identified that the thermography with the advantages of straight-forward, objective and simple fitted to be used in the research of acupuncture and meridians.
  • (20) Using the "Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Imaging Technique", the author has been able to accurately localize meridians and acupuncture points that correspond to specific internal organs and has found that most general patterns of meridians and the number of acupuncture points on each of the meridians of specific internal organs of the 12 main internal organs described in the literature of ancient Chinese medicine, are more or less correct, with the exception of some variations and inaccuracies.