altitude

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A vertical distance.
3. isim The line perpendicularly connecting a figure’s vertex, especially a triangle’s apex, to the side opposite to the vertex.

   “All three altitudes of any triangle will always meet at point known as the orthocentre or orthocenter.”

4. isim The length of such a line; the distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the side opposite to the vertex.

   “The perpendicular height of a triangle is known as its altitude.”

5. isim The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
6. isim Height of rank or excellence; superiority.

   “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.”

7. isim Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.

   “The man of law began to get into his altitudes.”

8. isim Highest point or degree.

   “He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue.”

9. isim Krull dimension.
10. isim Height.