Height

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The distance from the base to the top of something.

   “Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]”

2. isim The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).

   “— What's your height? — 180 centimetres.”

3. isim The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.

   “The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".”

4. isim The amplitude of a sinusoid.
5. isim The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.

   “We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.”

6. isim A high point.

   “At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.”

7. isim The highest point or maximum degree.

   “She's at the height of her career.”

8. isim A mountain, especially a very high one.
9. isim An area of land at the top of a cliff.
10. isim A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
11. özel isim A surname.