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Definition of Colatitudes
1. colatitude [n] - See also: colatitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colatitudes
Literary usage of Colatitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American House Carpenters' and Joiners' Assistant: Being a New and Easy by Lucius D. Gould (1857)
"With the tangents of the colatitudes, taken at intervals equal to the angle
between two successive meridians, and reduced to the radius of the primitive, ..."
2. Elements of Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical: With Its Application to by Charles William Hackley (1853)
"Let P be the pole, s and &' the places, then PS and PS' will be their colatitudes,
and the angle P will be the difference of their longitudes, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"... and if, with the pole for centre, arcs of parallels be swept with the two
assumed colatitudes for radii, the intersection of these two curves with the ..."
4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1896)
"... and the Greenwich and Cape observations of the same stars, Dr. Gill deduces
corrections to the colatitudes and the refractions. ..."
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