altitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin altitūdō (“height”), from altus (“high”).
Inflected forms:
form: altitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As the altitude increases, the temperature gets lower, so remember to bring warm clothes to the mountains.
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.
The technique would involve spraying large amounts of sulfate particles into the Earth’s lower stratosphere at altitudes as high as 12 miles. The scientists propose delivering the sulfates with specially designed high-altitude aircraft, balloons or large naval-style guns.
By changing the flying altitude by just couple of thousand feet on fewer than 2% of all scheduled flights, a study by a team of scientists at Imperial College London concludes that the damage to the climate caused by one consequence of aviation could be reduced by as much as 59%.
gloss: A vertical distance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The line perpendicularly connecting a figure’s vertex, especially a triangle’s apex, to the side opposite to the vertex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All three altitudes of any triangle will always meet at point known as the orthocentre or orthocenter.
gloss: The length of such a line; the distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the side opposite to the vertex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The perpendicular height of a triangle is known as its altitude.
gloss: The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The man of law began to get into his altitudes.
Is this deified passion , in its greatest altitudes , fitted to stand the day ?
gloss: Highest point or degree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue.
gloss: Krull dimension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Height.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: 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
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