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Altitude

noun

Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface. Synonym: height.

The perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel).

Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object). Synonyms: ALT, EL, elevation.

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... earth one sultry evening in the Brevoort, welcomed Kirk as a brother, as a rich brother. Even when his first impression, that he was to have the run of the house on Fifth Avenue and mix freely with touchable multi-millionaires, had been corrected, his altitude was still brotherly. He parted from Kirk with many solemn promises to present himself at the studio daily and teach him enough art to put him clear at the top of the profession. "Way above all these ...

— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse

... according to species and locality; the largest varieties reaching an altitude of ten or twelve feet, in others not growing more than two or three feet from the ground. Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic ...

— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings

... on his tongue to refuse Mr Sharnall's request, with the sympathetic but judicial firmness with which all high-minded persons refuse to lend. There is a tone of sad resolution particularly applicable to such occasions, which should convey to the borrower that only motives of great moral altitude constrain us for the moment to override an earnest desire to part with our money. If it had not been for considerations of the public weal, we would most readily have given him ten times as ...

— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner

... distance indicates the presence of a village somewhere around; but having plenty of bread on which to sup I once again determine upon studying astronomy behind a wheat-shock. It is a glorious moonlight night, but the altitude of the country hereabouts is not less than six thousand feet, and the chilliness of the atmosphere, already apparent, bodes ill for anything like a comfortable night; but I scarcely anticipate being disturbed by anything save atmospheric conditions. ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... outlook, however inadequate they seemed for the undertaking, they were to attempt what was enjoined. It lifted them to an altitude never before reached, and made them conscious of a power ...

— The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 7, July, 1889 • Various

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