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HEIGHT |
Altitude |
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ELEVATION |
Altitude |
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STEEPEN |
Increase altitude |
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ASCENDED |
Increased altitude |
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ASCEND |
Increase altitude |
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CEILINGS |
Altitude limits |
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CELSITURE |
Height; altitude. |
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CIRRUS |
High altitude cloud |
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HIGHER |
At a greater altitude |
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LEVEL |
Zero altitude sea ... |
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EYRIE |
Home in high altitude? Sounds strange |
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DISSENTS |
Disagrees with reductions in altitude, apparently |
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AERIE |
Home in high altitude? Sounds strange |
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BACULOMETRY |
Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or
staffs. |
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CULMINANT |
Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude;
hence, predominant. |
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DEGRADE |
To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and
mountains; to wear down. |
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BOW |
A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's
altitude at sea. |
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NOCTURNAL |
An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of
the stars, etc., at sea. |
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CULMINATE |
To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to
the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. |
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CULMINATION |
The attainment of the highest point of altitude
reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit. |
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ARGUMENT |
The quantity on which another quantity in a table
depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction. |
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HIGH |
In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to
a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully. |
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CHOROLOGY |
The science which treats of the laws of distribution of
living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude,
locality, etc. |
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REFRACTION |
The correction which is to be deducted from the
apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric
refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude. |
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ALMUCANTAR |
A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a
circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same
almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. |