altitude

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

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