Meaning & use
Latitudinal
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Relating to latitude, the distance of a place north or south of the equator.
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The study tracked latitudinal shifts in bird migration patterns over several decades.
Climate varies significantly along a latitudinal gradient from the equator to the poles.
A note on using this word
Latitudinal is frequently paired with 'longitudinal' in scientific writing to describe the two coordinates used to map any point on Earth.
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