Usually means: Height of an object above.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. altitude: Merriam-Webster
  2. altitude: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. altitude: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. altitude: Collins English Dictionary
  5. altitude: Vocabulary.com
  6. Altitude, altitude: Wordnik
  7. altitude: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. altitude: Wiktionary
  9. altitude: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. altitude: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. altitude: Dictionary.com
  12. altitude: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. altitude: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Altitude (ALT album), Altitude (Autumn album), Altitude (G.I. Joe), Altitude (Joe Morris album), Altitude (astronomy), Altitude (building), Altitude (disambiguation), Altitude (film), Altitude (geometry), Altitude (triangle), Altitude (video game), Altitude: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Altitude: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. altitude: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. altitude: Rhymezone
  18. altitude, altitude, altitude (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. altitude: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. altitude: FreeDictionary.org
  21. altitude: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. altitude: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. altitude: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. altitude: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Altitude (triangle), altitude: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. altitude: Medical dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Altitude: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  4. Altitude: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. Altitude: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. altitude: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  7. ALTITUDE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. Altitude: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Altitude: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  5. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Altitude: Latitude Mexico
  8. altitude: Lighting Design Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
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.
noun:  Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
noun:  (dated, in the plural) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
noun:  Highest point or degree.
noun:  (commutative algebra, dated, of a ring) Krull dimension.
noun:  (commutative algebra, of an ideal) Height.

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