Altitude

(noun.) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface; 'the altitude gave her a headache'.

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

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• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• If the altitude and the transit through the meridian were to be taken at the same time the four directi ons were to be followed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• At first the two forces circled at the same altitude, pouring broadside after broadside into each other. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Twenty were exposed to the air on the heights of the Jura at an altitude of eight hundred and fift y meters above sea-level; the contents of five of these subsequently putrefied. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The altitude was recorded according to the position of the sight attached to the graduated arc. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Pascal thought that this pressure would be less at a high altitude. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Two captive balloons had been floated to show the course and also to give an indication of the proper altitude to maintain. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• At that altitude, yes, Agustín grinned. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Air is more dense at the surface of the earth, and becomes continually more rarified as the altitude increases, until it becomes an indefinitely tenuous ether. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Unconsciousness comes quickly at this altitude, she said quietly. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to calculate successfully. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• These big trees grow at an altitude between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and, whether individual or in groves, they are found in protected valleys, canyons, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The greatest example of all search lights, however, is not to be found on the sea, but in the picturesque altitudes of the Sierra Madres in Southern California. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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