celestial latitude

1. 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

   Synonymsdeclinationdec

   Broaderangular distance

   astronomy

Questions about celestial latitude

What does celestial latitude mean?

celestial latitude means "(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".

What is another word for celestial latitude?

Close synonyms include declination, dec. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is celestial latitude a common word?

celestial latitude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.