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lats

 (läts)
n. pl. la·ti (lä′tē′)
The primary unit of currency in Latvia before the adoption of the euro.
[Latvian, probably from shortening of latvietis, Latvian.]
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lats

(læts)
n, pl lati (ˈlætiː)
(Currencies) the former standard monetary unit of Latvia, divided into 100 santimi
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lats

(læts)

n.pl. Informal.
latissimus dorsi muscles.
[1935–40; by shortening]
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Noun1.lats - the basic unit of money in Latvia
Latvian monetary unit - monetary unit in Latvia
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On the 5th of March, 1867, the Moravian, of the Montreal Ocean Company, finding herself during the night in 27@ 30' lat. and 72@ 15' long., struck on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea.
and 45@ 37' lat. She was going at the speed of thirteen knots and a half.
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In the course of her voyage she discovered the mouth of a large river in lat.
The expedition of Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1793, across the continent to the Pacific Ocean, which he reached in lat. 52 20'
In lat. 52 30' he had descended a river for some distance which flowed towards the south, and wag called by the natives Tacoutche Tesse, and which he erroneously supposed to be the Columbia.
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Near the Arroyo Tapes I heard of a wood of palms; and one of these trees, of considerable size, I saw near the Pan de Azucar, in lat. 35 degs.
In the southern part of the continent, where the western gales, charged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every island on the broken west coast, from lat. 38 degs.
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But, in order that the moon should reach the zenith of a given place, it is necessary that the place should not exceed in latitude the declination of the luminary; in other words, it must be comprised within the degrees 0@ and 28@ of lat. N.
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Looking to America; in the northern half, ice-borne fragments of rock have been observed on the eastern side as far south as lat. 36 deg-37 deg, and on the shores of the Pacific, where the climate is now so different, as far south as lat.
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“He’s true as ter steel!” shouted Major Hartmann; “ titn’t I tell you, lat, dat Marmatuke Temple vas a friend dat woult never fail in ter dime as of neet?”
“didst never hear a name as of olt Fritz Hartmann from ter mout of ter fader, lat?”
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You no makee fine young man like Blulan--you know lat, Mlaxon.
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