12 example sentences using elevation.
Elevation used in a sentence
Elevation in a sentence as a noun
None of this precludes the entire 2D web we're familiar with since 2D is simply an elevation view of 3D.
I'm guessing that he doesn't have a 100 foot waterfall on his property, he has a stream that loses 100 feet of elevation over some large distance.
Difference in air quality from sea level is not a simple function of elevation, but of air flow and direction.
Android's APIs allow us to access the raw data, but all of Apple's marketing talks just about "elevation".
They've got some smoothing algorithm going, or it wouldn't curve the way it does, but the elevation data must not have a high enough resolution.
It's really interesting stuff - we're not sure what causes them, but we've found some correlation between events and certain limits on the solar elevation angle.
This is an elevation of the individual, the creative genius, over the institution, the organized team.
"The developers said the phenomenon was caused by 'the current elevation of the sun in the sky', and that as Britain heads into autumn the problem should disappear.
This is absolutely stupid, as the route would follow I-15 and is already extremely rough with many changes in elevation and no consistent routing.
Oh man what an interesting question!The short answer is that a tall hill or mountain represents a broad elevation change that's contiguous with the surrounding landscape.
There seems to be a contradiction of his bashing of super-string theorists exploring "what if" theories disconnected from reality, and his elevation of philosophers who do the same.
The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Elevation definitions
the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"
angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
See also: altitude
a raised or elevated geological formation
distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level); "there was snow at the higher elevations"
(ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump; "a dancer of exceptional elevation"
drawing of an exterior of a structure
the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something; "the aggrandizement of the king"; "his elevation to cardinal"
See also: aggrandizement aggrandisement