(a) Breadth as one dimension of an area or solid; (b) area, extent, wideness, cross-sectional area; taken ~, to spread abroad; (c) cross section; after ~, across; (d) allowable degree of variation, range of variation.

Astron. (a) The angular distance (North or South from the equator) of a place on earth, latitude; (b) the angular distance of a heavenly object measured North or South from the equinoctial line or from the ecliptic; equacioun of ~, variation of latitude of a planet from the ecliptic; (c) the number of degrees of latitude from North to South included in a region of the earth; also, the number of degrees of celestial latitude subtended by a heavenly region.