Latitude

1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.
2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence.
3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.
4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope.
5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.
6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
Ascending latitude, Circle of latitude, Geographical latitude ,
etc. See under Ascending. Circle, etc.
High latitude ,
that part of the earth's surface near either pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle.
Low latitude ,
that part of the earth's surface which is near the equator.