latitude line in a sentence

Examples

1. This is an extra safety precaution because even sophisticated navigation gyros must work harder to pinpoint a plane's location near the pole, as longitude and latitude lines converge and all directions become south.
2. As a general rule, weather moves from west to east, but, on occasion, particularly in winter, there are transitions to patterns in which weather moves nearly parallel to longitude lines rather than latitude lines.
3. In the equatorial aspect ( where the equator is shown as the horizontal axis ) the network of longitude and latitude lines consists solely of straight lines, and the outer boundary has the distinctive shape of an elongated hexagon.
4. Geodesic grids have been developed by subdividing a sphere to developing a global tiling ( tessellation ) based on a geographic coordinates ( longitude latitude ) where a rectilinear cell is defined as the intersection of a longitude and latitude line.
5. As of the 2010 U . S . census, this places roughly 154.4 million Americans living on each side of a longitude line passing through a location in Pike County, Indiana, and the same number living on each side of a latitude line through the same point.
6. With the northern border redefined by Jay's Treaty, the settlement became part of United States territory, which extended to the south shore of the St . Lawrence River in this area up to Cornwall, Ontario where the border followed the 49th parallel to the east along a latitude line.
7. Dava Sobel writes that " the trick for remembering the difference " is that " the latitude lines, the parallels, really do stay parallel to each other as they girdle the globe " in a series of concentric circles that are smaller the farther they are from the equator.
8. The term " Tallahassee meridian " is also loosely used to describe the survey monument ( see survey marker ) located at the intersection of these lines of longitude and latitude ( the longitude line being the " Tallahassee meridian " and the latitude line being the " Tallahassee Parallel " or  Tallahassee Base Line ).
9. In the letter, Columbus also locates the islands at 26�N, quite north of their actual location, probably trying to set them above the latitude line designated by the Treaty of Alc��ovas of 1479 as the boundary of the exclusive dominions of the Portuguese crown ( he fell a little short the treaty latitude was set at the Canary islands latitude, approximately 27?0', which cuts around the middle of the Florida peninsula ).
10. "The new Latitude Line was designed by Dell engineers to offer corporate and institutional customers one of the thinnest, lightest full-featured notebook PCs on the market today, " said Phillip E . Kelly, president, Dell Computer Corp ., Asia-Pacific . " This outstanding new platform is not only one inch thinner and two pounds lighter than earlier generations of the Latitude, it also offers the latest, relevant features in an elegant package ."