heights

Noun

height (countable and uncountable, plural heights)

1. The distance from the base to the top of something.
   • Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]1942, Robert Frost, “Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length”, in A Witness Tree, New York: Henry Hold and Company, published 1943, page 15

   Synonyms:

   stature

   1. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
      • — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.
   2. The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
      • The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
   3. The amplitude of a sinusoid.
2. The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
   • We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.

   Synonyms:

   altitude

   Antonyms:

   depth

3. A high point.
   • At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 37

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