Illustration: At a hands-on science museum, a child explores a large globe with recognizable continents and raised parallel rings. The equator forms the central ring; smaller rings encircle the globe toward each pole. A sliding marker sits on a northern ring near Japan.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

緯い度ど

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latitude

Example sentences

  1. なお、大図だいずには緯度いど線せん・経度線けいどせんは記入きにゅうされていない。

    However, no lines of latitude and longitude are shown on the large maps.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 経度けいど緯度いどはおよそ北緯ほくい35度ど15分ふん,東経とうけい135度ど49分ふん。

    It is located approximately at lat. 35゚15' and at long. 135゚49'.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 縮尺しゅくしゃくの都合上つごうじょう、大図だいずと較くらべて地名ちめいなどの記載内容きさいないようは若干簡略化じゃっかんかんりゃくかされているが、代かわりに緯度いど・経度線けいどせんが引ひかれている。

    For convenience of reduction, data shown on the medium-sized maps, including geographical names, are simplified to some extent compared with those on the large maps, but the lines of latitude and longitude are shown on these maps instead.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 緯度

  • 緯horizontal; woofOnイKunよこいと・ぬき
  • 度degrees; occurrenceOnド・ト・タクKunたび

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