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 Latitude : Parallel of latitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Latitude is an angular measurement ranging from 0° at the equator to 90° at the poles.
Only at latitudes between the tropics is it possible for the sun to be at the zenith.
All locations of a given latitude are collectively referred to as a parallel, because they are coplanar, and all such planes are parallel to the equator.
www.termsdefined.net /pa/parallel-of-latitude.html   (351 words)

  
 * Parallel - (GIS): Definition
parallel of latitude A circle, or approximation of a circle, on the surface of the Earth, parallel tot he Equator, and connecting points of equal latitude...
A parallel (of latitude) is a line on a map that represents an imaginary east-west circle drawn on the Earth in a plane parallel to the plane that contains the equator...
Because the lines of latitude are parallel and evenly spaced, a degree of latitude represents a constant distance on the ground.
www.mimihu.com /gis/parallel.html   (1161 words)

  
 Latitude
All locations of a given latitude are collectively referred to as a line of latitude or parallel, because they are coplanar, and all such planess are parallel to the Equator.
A line of latitude is approximately a small circle on the surface of the Earth; except at the Equator, it is not a geodesic since the shortest route between two points at the same latitude usually involves moving further away from the equator.
A specific latitude may then be combined with a specific longitude to give a precise position on the Earth's surface.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/latitude   (378 words)

  
 * Latitude - (GIS): Definition
Latitude and longitude are angles measured from the Earth's center to locations on the Earth's surface...
Latitude and longitude representing the geographic coordinates f, l of a point P with respect to the selected reference surface.
The Latitude and Longitude changes slightly but for canoe trippers, you would add 10 m to the Easting and 222 m to the Northing to locate where the new grid lines would be on a NAD 83 map...
www.mimihu.com /gis/latitude.html   (1274 words)

  
 Calculation of Distance Represented by Degrees of Latitude and Longitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Length of 1 degree of Longitude = cosine (latitude) * length of degree (miles) at equator
length of 1° of latitude = 1° * 69.172 miles = 69.172 miles
= 365, 228 ft · 1° of latitude
www.colorado.edu /geography/gcraft/warmup/aquifer/html/distance.html   (152 words)

  
 Parallel Of Latitude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
A circle (or approximation of a circle) on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, and connecting points of equal latitude.
A circle of the celestial sphere, parallel to the ecliptic, and connecting points of equal celestial latitude.
Specialty definitions using "parallel of latitude": astronomical parallel ♦ circle of longitude ♦ geodetic parallelParallels ♦ small circle.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Pa/Parallel+of+latitude.html   (222 words)

  
 Parallel
Parallel (geometry) occurs in geometry lines or planes are parallel, then every point on one is located exactly the same minimum distance from the other line or plane.
Parallel computing is the simultaneous execution of the same task (split up and specially adapted) on multiple processors in order to obtain faster results.
In electronics, components are said to be "in parallel" if current branches to flow through both simultaneously, as against "in series" where the current flows through first one, then the other, along a single path.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/parallel.html   (150 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Arctic Circle
Arctic Circle, parallel of latitude on the surface of the Earth at 66°33’ N. It marks the southern limit of the area in which the Sun does not rise on the winter solstice (about December 21) or set on the summer solstice (about June 21).
The latitude of the Arctic Circle is determined by the angle between the Earth’s axis of rotation and a line perpendicular to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
The latitude of the Antarctic Circle is the complement of this angle and therefore its precise latitudinal value varies between 66°33’29.552” N and 66°33’47.552” N. How to cite this article:
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559446/Arctic_Circle.html   (149 words)

  
 George F. Cram Company - Lesson Plans 4-5 - World Map
Moving north from the Equator, parallels of latitude are numbered from zero degrees (0°) at the Equator to 90 degrees north (90° N) at the North Pole.
Moving south from the Equator, parallels of latitude are numbered from zero degrees (0°) at the Equator to 90 degrees south (90° S) at the South Pole.
New Orleans is located where the parallel of latitude that is 30 degrees north of the Equator crosses the meridian of longitude that is 90 degrees west of the Prime Meridian.
www.georgefcram.com /education/l45wm.html   (3412 words)

  
 38th parallel --  Encyclopædia Britannica
parallel of latitude that in East Asia roughly demarcates North and South Korea.
The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference, in July 1945, as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R. was to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces in Korea and south of which the Americans were to accept the Japanese surrender.
Early in the morning of June 25, 1950, the armed forces of Communist North Korea smashed across the 38th parallel of latitude in an invasion of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) that achieved complete surprise.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9072148   (823 words)

  
 Circle of latitude
A circle of latitude is an imaginary circle around the Earth made up of all the points that have the same particular value for their latitude.
These are based on the rotation of the Earth in relationship to the Sun.
The other lines of latitude are not the shortest distance between points (it is for this reason that an aeroplane travelling between a European and North American city on the same lattitude will fly further north, over Greenland for example), and are thus not really "lines" in the geometry of the sphere.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/circle_of_latitude   (289 words)

  
 Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
It depends on exactly what the wording is when you define the word "parallel." If you mean that the curves never intersect, then there can be parallel curves (can you think of an example?) If you mean that they intersect "at infinity," but nowhere else, then there can be parallel curves.
One often speaks of "parallels of latitude." I suppose that the term parallel was used since the planes containing the circles of equal latitude are parallel.
The term "lines of latitude" may mean the curves on a map that correspond to the parallels of latitude.
mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/57762.html   (437 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - parallel of latitude (Maps And Mapping) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - parallel of latitude (Maps And Mapping) - Encyclopedia
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 How charts and maps are made - BoatSafe Kids!
The latitude of any place on the globe is its distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees, from 0º at the equator to 90ºN at the north pole and 90ºS at the south pole.
There are also 60 nautical miles in one degree of longitude measured east-west along the equator, but you mustn’t measure along any other parallel of latitude, as the parallels get shorter as you move north or south away from the equator.
In the middle latitudes of the USA and Europe, they can be used for charts of small areas, but conical projections are usually used for large areas.
www.boatsafe.com /kids/mercator.htm   (1253 words)

  
 Beckwith report of the Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1854
Leaving the city, we proceeded north along the shore of the lake, passing through the Mormon settlements and farms, which occupy the most fertile and best watered sections of the narrow belt of land lying between the shore and the base of the mountains.
Travelling partly parallel to the stream, we crossed over to Smith's fork, which is separated from Black's only by a plain common to them both, passing near a settlement called Fort Supply, commenced on Smith's fork last autumn.
It is terminated to the west by Cedar mountains, a range parallel with, but not so elevated -as that to the east of the valley, which is twenty miles wide.
cprr.org /Museum/PacRR_Surveys-Beckwith.html   (14257 words)

  
 Vertical Section on the Parallel of Latitude 41 degrees North. / Long, Stephen H. ; James, Edwin / 1823   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Vertical Section on the Parallel of Latitude 41 degrees North.
Full Title: Vertical Section on the Parallel of Latitude 41 degrees North intended as a continuation of Maclure's third Section from the sea-shore to the summit of the Alleghenies.
(with) Vertical Section on the Parallel of Latitude 35 degrees North intended as a continuation of Maclure's fifth Section.
www.davidrumsey.com /maps1151.html   (495 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The domain has three open boundaries (two cross depth contours and one parallel to them) in which the oscillations of 12 tidal constituents are imposed (Q1, O1, P1, K1, N2, M2, S2, K2, M3, MN4, M4 and MS4, accounting for 93% of the total tide).
This is because of the Cray C90's parallel vectorized processor (PVP), which gathers all the variables before the computation of a do-loop.
Spectrum analysis indicates that the most significant oceanic response is near-inertial motion in water deeper than 75 m, and in regions with a shallower mixed layer.
www.aos.princeton.edu /WWWPUBLIC/htdocs.pom/POM98/POM98.proc   (10657 words)

  
 parallel of latitude on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Medieval Arab navigation on the Indian Ocean: latitude determinations.
King of all laptops: one laptop rises to the top of the pack.Check out the mighty Dell Latitude C400.
Tracking Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus orientalis) in the northeastern Pacific with an automated algorithm that estimates latitude by matching sea-surface-temperature data from satellites with temperature data...
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-parallat.asp   (257 words)

  
 Windows XP: install Win XP on a Dell Latitude LS without cdrom drive
I have a Dell Latitude LS in whic I put a new hd (which is blank now obviously.
Problem : it doesn't recognize de cdrom on the parallel port or the usb cdrw to boot.
A dell latitude LS is a so called ultraportable.
www.experts-exchange.com /Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21085785.html   (929 words)

  
 35th Parallel - "A Lot of Latitude"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
As 35th Parallel's melodic center, Ritchey is comfortable with many Middle Eastern musical traditions.
Ritchey ornaments 35th Parallel's performances and recordings with turns on the bouzouki - a Greek instrument also used in Turkey and the Arab world - acoustic guitar and even didjeridoo, the droning Australian aboriginal wind instrument.
A great deal of the music that 35th Parallel references is rooted in religious devotion.
www.35thparallel.com /sevendaysarticle.html   (1450 words)

  
 Tropic of Capricorn on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
parallel of latitude at 23°30′ south of the equator; it is the southern boundary of the tropics.
This parallel marks the farthest point south at which the sun can be seen directly overhead at noon; south of the parallel the sun appears less than 90° from the northern horizon at any day of the year.
The sun reaches its vertical position over the Tropic of Capricorn at about Dec. 22, the summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TropC1ap.asp   (370 words)

  
 19.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
If you rotate a plane curve about an axis in its plane, every point of the curve describes a circle about the axis of rotation.
If you rotate a line which is parallel to the axis of rotation, you obtain a
If the cutter is gradually displaced parallel at the same distance from the axis, a cylinder is obtained.
kr.cs.ait.ac.th /~radok/math/mat2/chap19.htm   (308 words)

  
 Parallel of latitude - Definition of Parallel of latitude by Webster Dictionary
Parallel of latitude - Definition of Parallel of latitude by Webster Dictionary
One of the small circles of the sphere, parallel to the ecliptic.
horse latitude, latitude, line, line of latitude, parallel, polar circle, tropic
www.webster-dictionary.net /definition/Parallel%20of%20latitude   (61 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Parallel Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The term Parallel has a number of important meanings: Parallel occurs in geometry lines or planes are parallel, then every point on one is located exactly the same minimum distance from the other line...
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
www.ipedia.com /parallel.html   (217 words)

  
 Glossary of Terms
The subtropical latitudes (30-35 degrees), where winds are light and weather is hot and dry.
A method of making maps in which the Earth's surface is shown as a rectangle with the meridians as parallel straight lines spaced at equal intervals and the parallels of latitude as parallel straight lines intersecting the meridians at right angles.
A nautical mile is approximately equal to 1/60 of a degree or 1 minute of arc of a great circle of the Earth (i.e., 1 minute of arc of latitude or of longitude at the equator).
asd-www.larc.nasa.gov /biomass_burn/glossary.html   (16874 words)

  
 The Earth according to WGS 84 (every degree of latitude)
The Earth according to WGS 84 (every degree of latitude)
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Calculated by Sigurd Humerfelt (20th November 1999, last updated 2nd November2005) (881).
home.online.no /~sigurdhu/Grid_1deg.htm   (109 words)

  
 Dell Latitude C610 parts - uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
LCD ribbon pigtail for Dell Latitude C500/C600 and Inspiron 4000 Laptop.
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