Definition:Terrestrial Colatitude/Also known as

Terrestrial Colatitude: Also known as

Terrestrial colatitude is usually known in common parlance as just colatitude.

However, this term also encompasses other measurements of colatitude, for example celestial colatitude.

Hence on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ the full term terrestrial colatitude is preferred, so as to forestall ambiguity, unless the context is clear.

Sources

• 1976: W.M. Smart: Textbook on Spherical Astronomy (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text I$. Spherical Trigonometry: $4$. Terrestrial latitude and longitude.