Definitions for altitude

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altitude al·ti·tude

Spelling: [al-ti-tood, -tyood]

IPA: /ˈæl tɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/

Altitude is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in altitude (adeilttu).

Definitions for altitude

noun

1. the height of anything above a given planetary reference plane, especially above sea level on earth.
2. extent or distance upward; height.
3. Astronomy. the angular distance of a heavenly body above the horizon.
4. Geometry. the perpendicular distance from the vertex of a figure to the side opposite the vertex. the line through the vertex of a figure perpendicular to the base.
5. Usually, altitudes. a high place or region:
6. high or important position, rank, etc.

Origin of altitude

1350-1400; Middle English Latin altitūdō; see alti-, -tude

Examples for altitude

The altitude record at this time is about 4,165 feet, held by Paulhan.

Trekking at altitude is no easy feat, and each woman pushed herself harder than she thought possible.

All of this is consistent with a violent explosion at altitude.

What with the altitude…I mean, I cried like a baby at Rocky IV.

Like a fine fruit, it will grow in one climate and not in another; at one altitude and not at another.

He turned as they turned and climbed as they climbed for the advantage that altitude might give.

The tree-topped hills in their altitude are at times lost in the clouds.

Whatever happened overtook them both within a minute or so of that altitude change request, and they were never heard from again.

From their altitude of four thousand feet, they could see the Denver.

And now that you mention it, I also got seasick, and had altitude sickness, and had to be rescued a few times.