Latitudinal is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Latitudinal meaning
Relating to latitude.
Synonyms of Latitudinal
Using Latitudinal
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to latitude.
- Useful related words include: angular distance.
- In the example corpus, latitudinal often appears in combinations such as: the latitudinal, and latitudinal, latitudinal distribution.
Context around Latitudinal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Latitudinal
- In this selection, "latitudinal" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, average, large, specific, distribution, species and drift stand out and add context to how "latitudinal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as the latitudinal gradient in and centre and latitudinal motion of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "latitudinal" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with latitudinal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is often referred to as the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. (12 words)
Earth's surface can be subdivided into specific latitudinal belts of approximately homogeneous climate. (14 words)
In the latitudinal direction the taiga is divided into three subzones - northern, middle and southern taiga. (16 words)
In a portion of the Pilbra Craton in Western Australia, one of the oldest pieces of the Earth’s crust, scientists found a latitudinal drift of about 2.5 centimetres a year and dated the motion to 3.2 billion years ago. (42 words)
One of the draws of 43 North (the name is a reference to the gym’s latitudinal location on the planet) is its array of SportsArt machines – it’s the only gym in New Hampshire that has them. (38 words)
Based on average latitudinal gradients of air temperature, an average northward displacement of the southern permafrost boundary by 50-to-150 km could be expected, under equilibrium conditions, for a 1 °C warming. (33 words)
Example sentences (18)
Considering productivity as an influence on latitudinal species richness patterns (a), observed and hypothesized relationships are primarily positive, although the shape is debated (Gillman et al., 2015; Whittaker et al., 2001).
In a portion of the Pilbra Craton in Western Australia, one of the oldest pieces of the Earth’s crust, scientists found a latitudinal drift of about 2.5 centimetres a year and dated the motion to 3.2 billion years ago.
One of the draws of 43 North (the name is a reference to the gym’s latitudinal location on the planet) is its array of SportsArt machines – it’s the only gym in New Hampshire that has them.
Based on average latitudinal gradients of air temperature, an average northward displacement of the southern permafrost boundary by 50-to-150 km could be expected, under equilibrium conditions, for a 1 °C warming.
Because of the large latitudinal range of the country and the varied topography and climate, Norway has a larger number of different habitats than almost any other European country.
But the seasonal and latitudinal distribution and intensity of solar radiation received at Earth's surface does vary.
Earth's surface can be subdivided into specific latitudinal belts of approximately homogeneous climate.
In his calculation Arrhenius included the feedback from changes in water vapor as well as latitudinal effects, but he omitted clouds, convection of heat upward in the atmosphere, and other essential factors.
In the latitudinal direction the taiga is divided into three subzones - northern, middle and southern taiga.
Isanomals are drawn on maps of anomalies (for example, deviations of the mean temperature of each place from the mean temperature of the entire latitudinal zone).
Latitudinal streets range from names of presidents in the downtown area to names of notable people in Springfield and Illinois to names of institutions of higher education, especially in the Harvard Park neighborhood.
Nilakantha's system, however, was mathematically more effient than the Tychonic system, due to correctly taking into account the equation of the centre and latitudinal motion of Mercury and Venus.
Paleoclimate Because of its latitudinal position and its land-locked configuration, the Mediterranean is especially sensitive to astronomically induced climatic variations, which are well documented in its sedimentary record.
Some physical (plate tectonics, topographic highs), some climatic (latitudinal variation, seasonal range) and some ocean chemical related (salinity, oxygen levels).
Surface water temperatures, which vary with latitude, current systems, and season and reflect the latitudinal distribution of solar energy, range from below convert to over convert.
The eight cell stage cleavage is latitudinal; so that each cell from the four cell stage goes on to make two cells.
The latitudinal and longitudinal spatial variation of temperature greatly affects climates and consequently the distribution of biodiversity and levels of primary production in different ecosystems or biomes across the planet.
This is often referred to as the latitudinal gradient in species diversity.
Common combinations with latitudinal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: