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In the geographical system of spherical coordinates, the angular distance of a point from a fundamental plane, computed from this plane 0 to 90 degree towards the (positive) North Pole and 0 to -90 degree towards the South. the equator marks 0 degree. (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990) |