CELESTIAL LATITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does celestial latitude mean? 

• CELESTIAL LATITUDE (noun)
  The noun CELESTIAL LATITUDE has 1 sense:

1. (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere

  Familiarity information: CELESTIAL LATITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELESTIAL LATITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

celestial latitude; dec; declination

Hypernyms ("celestial latitude" is a kind of...):

angular distance (the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)