height
The distance from the base to the top of something.
Other meanings
The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
Related words
- aheight
- Chicago Heights
- Cleveland Heights
- coheight
- commanding heights
- Cornwells Heights
- decision height
- drying height
- find your height
- geopotential height
- height above average terrain
- piss on from a great height
Word history
From Old English "hēahþu".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “height” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.