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GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE

Definition: GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE

GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE

1. (of place) the angle included between the radius of the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in distinction from geographic latitude. It is a little less than the geographic latitude.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE

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Aerospace

Of a position in the earth's surface; the angle between a line to the center of the earth and the plane of the equator.Because the earth is approximately an oblate spheroid, rather than a true sphere, this differs from geographic latitude, the maximum difference being 11.6 minutes of arc at latitude 45 degrees. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE

English words defined with "GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE": Geocentrical, Geographic latitude. (references)

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Anagrams: GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-g-i-i-l-n-o-r-t-t-t-u"

-5 letters: decorticating, electrocuting, trinucleotide.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GEOCENTRIC LATITUDE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 45 4F 43 45 4E 54 52 49 43      4C 41 54 49 54 55 44 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000101 01001111 01000011 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000011 00100000 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010100 01010101 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#79 &#67 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#84 &#85 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004F 0043 0045 004E 0054 0052 0049 0043      004C 0041 0054 0049 0054 0055 0044 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4139493739485452433724635544354553839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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