Usually means: Height above or below sea level.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word elevation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. elevation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elevation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elevation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elevation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elevation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elevation, elevation: Wordnik
  7. elevation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elevation: Wiktionary
  9. elevation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elevation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elevation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. elevation, the elevation: Dictionary.com
  13. elevation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Elevation (Anggun album), Elevation (King novel), Elevation (Liturgy), Elevation (Pharoah Sanders album), Elevation (architecture), Elevation (ballistics), Elevation (cannabis shop), Elevation (disambiguation), Elevation (emotion), Elevation (kinesiology), Elevation (liturgy), Elevation (novel), Elevation (novella), Elevation (psychology), Elevation (song), Elevation (view), Elevation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Elevation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. elevation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. elevation: Rhymezone
  18. Elevation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. elevation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. elevation: Free Dictionary
  21. elevation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. elevation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. elevation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. elevation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Elevation (geography), elevation: Legal dictionary
  3. Elevation (geography), elevation: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elevation (geography), elevation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Elevation (geography), elevation: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elevation: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Elevation: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See elevations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
noun:  The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
noun:  That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
noun:  (astronomy) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
noun:  The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
noun:  The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
noun:  The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
noun:  (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
noun:  (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
noun:  (UK, obsolete, uncountable) An opium mixture used in the Fens to improve the mood and prevent malaria.

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