parallel of latitude

noun parallel of latitude

• cirque — a semicircular or crescent-shaped basin with steep sides and a gently sloping floor formed in mountainous regions by the erosive action of a glacier
• colure — either of two great circles on the celestial sphere, one of which passes through the celestial poles and the equinoxes and the other through the poles and the solstices
• cordon — A cordon is a line or ring of police, soldiers, or vehicles preventing people from entering or leaving an area.
• disc — any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
• ecliptic — Astronomy. the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere; the apparent annual path of the sun in the heavens. an analogous great circle on a terrestrial globe.