Assertion: latitude | /r/HasProperty | equal
Facets:
value: roughly
type: DEGREE
value: to the angle
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: On the sphere the normal passes through the centre and the latitude (φ) is therefore equal to the angle subtended at the centre by the meridian arc from the equator to the point concerned.
text: The tropics include all the areas on the Earth where the Sun contacts a point directly overhead at least once during the solar year (which is a subsolar point) - thus the latitude of the tropics is roughly equal to the angle of the Earth's axial tilt.