Where does latitude collide?

In geography latitude is the angular distance of a place north or south of the equator, measured in degrees from zero at the equator to ninety at the poles, and together with longitude it fixes position on the globe. Ptolemy's Geography, surviving in the Berggren and Jones translation, already tabulated places by latitude and longitude in the second century, making this by far the oldest meaning of the word. The referent is a coordinate on the Earth's surface, with precise geodetic variants that account for the planet's non-spherical shape. It has nothing in common with a film's tolerance for exposure error or a listener's range of acceptable opinions beyond the shared Latin root for breadth.[1]

Unit

Degrees of arc north or south of the equator

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Determined by astronomical observation or satellite positioning relative to the equatorial plane

In photography exposure latitude is the range of exposures over and under the ideal by which a film or sensor can still record an acceptable image, a measure of how forgiving the medium is of exposure error. A wide-latitude negative film holds detail across several stops of over- or under-exposure, while a slide film or a sensor driven to clipping has narrow latitude, as treated in general photographic practice. The meaning draws on latitude as leeway or room to move, here the room an exposure can stray from correct. The referent is a tolerance band of a recording medium, unrelated to a map coordinate or an attitude scale.[2]

Unit

The range of over- and under-exposure, in stops, yielding an acceptable image

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Read from the straight-line portion of the medium's characteristic (density versus log-exposure) curve

In social judgment theory the latitude of acceptance is the range of positions on an issue that a person finds acceptable around their own stand, flanked by a latitude of rejection and a latitude of noncommitment. Sherif, Taub, and Hovland's 1958 anchoring study supplied the assimilation-and-contrast mechanism, and the latitude constructs were set out fully in the subsequent Social judgment programme: messages falling inside the latitude of acceptance are assimilated toward one's view, those in the latitude of rejection are contrasted away. The word again means room or breadth, here the breadth of tolerable opinion. The referent is a span on an attitude continuum, not a map coordinate or a medium's exposure tolerance.[3]

Unit

The span of positions on an attitude scale a person will endorse or tolerate

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Elicited by having people sort ordered position statements into acceptable, rejected, and noncommittal sets