latitude

Summary

latitude ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,388 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• latitude is a type of physical quantity^[2].
• latitude is a type of angle^[3].
• latitude is part of geographic coordinate^[4].
• latitude's Commons category is recorded as Latitudes^[5].
• latitude's quantity symbol is recorded as ϕ^[6].
• latitude is the opposite of longitude^[7].
• latitude is the opposite of colatitude^[8].
• latitude's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Circles of latitude^[9].
• latitude's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[10].
• latitude's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[11].
• latitude's has characteristic is recorded as unit of plane angle^[12].
• latitude's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[13].
• latitude's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[14].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include physical quantity^[2] and angle^[3]. Recorded opposite of include longitude^[7] and colatitude^[8].

Use and Application

latitude is part of geographic coordinate^[4].

Influence

Things named for latitude include Google Latitude^[15], an application software^[16], in United States^[17].

Why It Matters

latitude ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,388 views/month).^[1] latitude has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[18] latitude is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[19]

Entities named for latitude include Google Latitude^[15], an application software^[16], in United States^[17].