English Dictionary

altitude

/ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/

noun

The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level. / A vertical distance. / (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.

The altitude of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters.

意味（1）

The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.

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.

意味（2）

A vertical distance.

意味（3）

(geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.

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

意味（4）

(astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.

意味（5）

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.

意味（6）

(dated, in the plural) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.

The man of law began to get into his altitudes.

意味（7）

Highest point or degree.

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