# altitude
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin altitūdō (“height”), from altus (“high”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/, /ˈælt.ɪˌt͡ʃuːd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈælt.ɪˌtuːd/

### Noun

altitude (countable and uncountable, plural altitudes)
* The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
    As the altitude increases, the temperature gets lower, so remember to bring warm clothes to the mountains.
** 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
* A vertical distance.
* (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
    The perpendicular height of a triangle is known as its altitude.
* (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
* Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
** 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:Whoever has an ambition to be heard in a crowd, must press, and squeeze, and thrust, and climb, with indefatigable pains, till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them.
* (dated, in the plural) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
** 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:The man of law began to get into his altitudes.
** 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:Is this deified passion , in its greatest altitudes , fitted to stand the day ?
* Highest point or degree.
** c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue.
* (commutative algebra, dated, of a ring) Krull dimension.
* (commutative algebra, of an ideal) Height.

#### Derived terms

* absolute altitude
* altazimuth
* altimetry
* altitude-sick
* altitude sickness
* altitudinal
* altitudinous
* at altitude
* bialtitude
* coaltitude
* critical altitude
* high-altitude
* low-altitude
* maltitude
* medium-altitude
* midaltitude
* minimum descent altitude
* minimum sector altitude
* paleoaltitude
* pressure altitude
* transition altitude

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* “altitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “altitude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* latitude

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altitūdō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /al.ti.tyd/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

altitude f (plural altitudes)
* altitude

#### Related terms

* haut

### Further reading

* “altitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin altitūdō.

### Noun

altitude f (plural altitudes)
* altitude

#### Related terms

* alto
* altura

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altitūdō.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aw.t͡ʃiˈtu.d͡ʒi/ [aʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈtu.d͡ʒi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /aw.t͡ʃiˈtu.d͡ʒi/ [aʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈtu.d͡ʒi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aw.t͡ʃiˈtu.de/ [aʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈtu.de]
* (Portugal) IPA: /al.tiˈtu.dɨ/ [aɫ.tiˈtu.ðɨ]
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
* Hyphenation: al‧ti‧tu‧de

### Noun

altitude f (plural altitudes)
* altitude

#### Related terms

* alteza
* alto
* altura