Definition:Terrestrial Latitude/Also known as

Terrestrial Latitude: Also known as

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

However, this term also encompasses other measurements of latitude, for example celestial latitude and galactic latitude.

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

Sources

• 1933: D.M.Y. Sommerville: Analytical Conics (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text I$. Coordinates: $2$. Coordinates
• 1976: W.M. Smart: Textbook on Spherical Astronomy (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text I$. Spherical Trigonometry: $4$. Terrestrial latitude and longitude.
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): latitude: 1.
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): latitude: 1.
• 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $6$: Curves and Coordinates: Coordinate geometry today
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): latitude