What's the difference between latitudinous and platitudinous?
Latitudinous
Definition:
(a.) Having latitude, or wide extent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another conspicuous histologic finding observed in the WKY hearts was that the continuity of the latitudinal fiber bundle of the ventricular septum with that of the left ventricular free wall, an important functioning unit for pressure generation in the left ventricle, was markedly disturbed in the area of junction between the 2 walls; the smaller the continuity, the greater the cardiac hypertrophy; the disadvantage of the discontinuity for the pressure generation may be related to the development of cardiac hypertrophy.
(2) The observed north-south differences in the phase relation of both pacemaker and rhythm to the light cycle are explained by the latitudinal clines in pacemaker properties and a postulated aftereffect of photoperiod on tau.
(3) The individual components of the productivity process, net production, gross production, dark respiration as well as their regional rates are computed for 10 degree latitudinal belts.
(4) Selection for conservation of pacemaker amplitude (during the breeding season) would produce the latitudinal cline we propose.
(5) A model has been developed to evaluate the effect of seasonal and latitudinal changes on the potential of sunlight to initiate cutaneous production of vitamin D3.
(6) Socioeconomic status (particularly income), German ethnicity, and colon cancer mortality were strong indicators of the rates for postmenopausal women, but only partly explained the northern excess and latitudinal gradient.
(7) I believe this attitude found its origins in the indisputable fact that there are latitudinal and altitudinal changes in community complexity.
(8) Although a greater wall stress in the latitudinal versus longitudinal axis was predicted adequately from left ventricular geometry alone, the observed latitudinal strain exceeded longitudinal strain by an amount greater than was predicted by geometric considerations alone, suggesting that myocardial anisotropy contributes significantly to changes in ventricular shape during diastolic filling.
(9) By comparison of the principal characters some distinctions typical for forests of different latitudinal situation are revealed.
(10) These results quantify the dramatic influence of changes in solar UVB radiation on cutaneous vitamin D3 synthesis and indicate the latitudinal increase in the length of the "vitamin D winter" during which dietary supplementation of the vitamin may be advisable.
(11) To avoid interactions with the Adh and alpha Gpdh loci, which also have latitudinal clines, all karyotypes were homozygous AdhS alpha GpdhF.
(12) The TLA is considered to reflect the normal myocardial architecture: the predominant latitudinal fiber bundles of the midwall layer, and longitudinal or oblique ones on both sides.
(13) The circadian rhythm of eclosion activity and its pacemaker were analyzed in a series of latitudinal races of Drosophila auraria ranging from 34.2 degrees to 42.9 degrees N in Japan.
(14) Unlike several other studies, we found no latitudinal allele-frequency clines and no significant correlation with temperature.
(15) We think that the gene clines are due to a latitudinal cline in the degree of advancement of local populations through the seasonal cycle, and have called such a pattern a 'seasonal phase cline'.
(16) This discontinuity may result from retention of an abnormal fetal myocardial architecture in which the septal latitudinal muscle was continuous with the right ventricular free wall.
(17) Latitudinal overgrowth was noted in specimens distracted for more than 13 days.
(18) The spectral distribution of solar radiation was studied under different sky conditions during a 15-month period in Miami, Florida (USA), and over a latitudinal gradient at solar maximum.
(19) These changes suggest: (i): an expansion in the exploitation of dry fruits and seeds by mammals on the ground as well as in the trees after the terminal Cretaceous dinosaur extinction; (ii) a relation between large nuts and rodents, which appear in the late Palaeocene and radiate in the late Eocene; (iii) a relation between primates and fleshy fruits established in the early-Middle Eocene when tropical forests reached their maximum latitudinal extent; (iv) a hiatus of several million years in the vertebrate exploitation of leaves after dinosaur extinction and before the first few mammalian herbivores in the Middle Palaeocene, followed by an expansion in the late Eocene when climates cooled and more open vegetation became established.
(20) Whilst the variation in Est6(1.00) was opposite to that previously reported, AdhS showed latitudinal clines consistent with data from the northern and southern hemispheres.
Platitudinous
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes.
Example Sentences:
(1) These platitudinous attempts to reassure that everything would be sorted out with goodwill – well, if this is your proposition to take us out of the 40-year relationship, where is your detail?” There are other reasons why support for staying in the EU is considerably more solid in Northern Ireland than in the UK as a whole.
(2) Like a dancer in the corps de ballet required to grin despite the pain, she smiles throughout her answers (or, quite often, platitudinous non-answers).
(3) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
(4) "If the union really wishes to play a role, it must escape from the situation where defining a common position comes down to seeking the lowest common denominator in platitudinous declarations or ritualised diplomatic tours."
(5) Later they would sit in a half-empty press room in the bowels of the stadium and, after half heartedly answering a couple of platitudinous questions from the host, be asked whether they were on drugs.
(6) Many spiritual leaders can sound obscure and platitudinous at once, as if they were simultaneously translating their message from some inner Tibetan original – the Dalai Lama really is.
(7) I have always been deeply suspicious of the kind of rhetoric that modern pop surrounds itself with: all that platitudinous “just be yourself”, “if you dream it you can do it” stuff.
(8) After all, the lesson of the past few years in celebrity has been that there is no problem in the world too complex that it cannot be addressed by the emotionalised, platitudinous pronunciations of an entertainer.