height

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The next day, sober, I wrote a couple of neat height-field/terrain programs in OpenGL.

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Quick take

the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of height gathered in one view.

noun

the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

noun

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"

noun

(of a standing person) the distance from head to foot

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for height.

noun

the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

noun

(of a standing person) the distance from head to foot

noun

elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface; "the altitude gave her a headache"

Example sentences

The next day, sober, I wrote a couple of neat height-field/terrain programs in OpenGL.

I would consider a normal height van but bending over all the time is not my thing.

It is a cylinder with a diameter of perhaps 15ft and a height of roughly 40ft.

Ninety percent of CEOs are of above average height.

"The waist-height cube is the most ill-conceived abortion of office planning that I've ever encountered.

Even at the height of the modern music industry maybe 1 in 1000 aspiring musicians ended up being signed to a major label.

Wavelength is not a local concept, as for example the height of the wave, but the wave differs from place to place, so it's impossible to give it just one wavelength!

Anyway, suggesting people merely uproot their lives seems like the height of insanity, and while many a brave soul do it, I don't think I ever could, not even for cancer-curin'.

What's more mysterious is that the "divine" number equals your height divided by the height of your torso, and even weirder, the ratio of female bees to male bees in a typical hive!

And the same genes may produce very different IQs and heights against different genetic backgrounds and in different environmental circumstances.

" Women do prefer men who are tall, but you will not be asked to provide a copy of your last physical attesting to your height when meeting your bride-to-be's parents to discuss your intention to marry her.

The dark side to gathering such a broad, seemingly untargeted, amount of information is obvious, he said.“It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used,” he said.

It's made weirder by how big some of them get, "Jellyfish range from about one millimeter in bell height and diameter to nearly two meters in bell height and diameter; the tentacles and mouth parts usually extend beyond this bell dimension.

How boring would life be if every time you read or heard anything negative about someone, it only referred to them as a human?You can't solve prejudice and bias by pretending that people's race, gender, nationality, height, weight, shoe size, etc. don't exist.

"Together, however, the developmental natures of GCA and height, the likely influences of geneenvironment correlations and interactions on their developmental processes, and the potential for genetic background and environmental circumstances to release previously unexpressed genetic variation suggest that very different combinations of genes may produce identical IQs or heights or levels of any other psychological trait.