Synonyms of the word altitude


ALTITUDEDISTANCE - ELEVATION - HEIGHT - LENGTH

altitude

  • n. The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
  • n. A vertical distance.
  • n. (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
  • n. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
  • n. Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
  • n. (dated, in the plural) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
  • n. Highest point or degree.

distance

  • n. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily)…
  • n. Length or interval of time.
  • n. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
  • n. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
  • n. Remoteness in succession or relation.
  • n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
  • n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
  • v. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

elevation

  • n. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons,…
  • n. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
  • n. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
  • n. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between…
  • n. The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
  • n. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle…
  • n. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the…
  • n. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

height

  • n. The distance from the base of something to the top.
  • n. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the…
  • n. The highest point or maximum degree.
  • n. A mountain, especially a very high one.
  • n. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.

length

  • n. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
  • n. duration.
  • n. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
  • n. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
  • n. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
  • n. (figuratively) Total extent.
  • n. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
  • v. (obsolete) To lengthen.

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