altitude
- Noun. The height measured from sea level up to any given point.
- Noun. A vertical distance.
- Noun. (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
- Noun. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
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