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mid-latitude A type of rhumb-line sailing that uses the mid-latitude (Lm) defined as the average of the departure and arrival latitudes. It also refers to the center latitude on a universal plotting sheet. As one word, midlatitudes refers to the region on earth between the tropics and the polar regions. See also middle latitudes.

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