(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.
Sextant
Definition:
(n.) The sixth part of a circle.
(n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant.
(n.) The constellation Sextans.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment needs were determined by the worst periodontal score per sextant.
(2) Pathologic pockets of 6 mm or more were found in 1.3 and 0.3 sextants in the diabetic and control group subjects, respectively (P less than 0.001).
(3) Neither were any differences found in the periodontal condition related to the duration and control of diabetes, whereas diabetics with advanced retinopathy demonstrated more sextants with deep pockets.
(4) A randomized four-sextant treatment design was used.
(5) The value of digital rectal examination, computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, prostate-specific antigen, transrectal ultrasonography, and systematic-sextant biopsy in the identification of lymph node-positive patients before radical prostatectomy was analyzed in 103 men who had pelvic lymph node dissection, CT had a sensitivity of only 7% and a specificity of 96% in detecting lymph nodes, whereas magnetic resonance imaging had a sensitivity of 50% and a specificity of 100%.
(6) Based on the Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN) it can be stated that more than 90% of the adult population of 25 years and over needs oral hygiene education and scaling in one of more sextants (TN2).
(7) The mean number of missing sextants was also significantly higher in diabetics.
(8) Very few patients had 'healthy' periodontal sextants at the first visit; the most frequent CPITN category was 3.
(9) Any child with two or more sextants or teeth with CPITN code 3 or one sextant code 4 was taken for a radiographic and full clinical examination.
(10) The mean number of sextants requiring scaling was 0.6 per person at age 17 in Espoo as compared to 4.5 at 18.5 yr of age in Chiangmai.
(11) There are broad differences in the numbers of healthy sextants between developing countries and those which are highly industrialized.
(12) Straight rods, fusiforms and motile rods correlated negatively to the number of healthy sextants per subject.
(13) In general, females were healthier than males, had a significantly greater number of healthy sextants, less sextants with calculus and less sextants with deep pockets.
(14) Posterior sextants with CPITN Code 4 were more likely treated with surgery than sextants with CPITN Code 3.
(15) per sextant in the Spaniard population under 20 years of age.
(16) One maxillary sextant was splinted, while the other was unsplinted.
(17) Four pockets per patient, one in each posterior sextant, were chosen.
(18) Partial mouth random recording (2 upper and 1 lower or 1 upper and 2 lower sextants) was made by CPITN of 150 sextants, and at 6 sites around each tooth in each sextant for each index using a pressure-sensitive probe, with Newman tip and Williams markings, and a WHO 621 tip, probing pressure 0.25 N. Ranges of each index were compared with corresponding CPITN data.
(19) Surgical therapy was effective over all levels of disease severity and was the preferred form of therapy with respect to reduction of probing depth except for sextants exhibiting 4 to 5 mm pockets.
(20) While plaque and calculus were present in many sextants, there was little intense gingivitis and signs of advanced periodontal diseases were rarely present.