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hauteur — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • altitude noun The height of something above sea level or the ground.
  • height noun The measurement of how tall something or someone is, from base to top.
  • pitch noun A persuasive presentation intended to sell or promote something.

Senses

hauteur is used for these senses in English:

  • altitude (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
  • height The distance from the base to the top of something.
  • height The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).

altitude — full definition

  1. noun The height of something above sea level or the ground.
  2. noun In geometry, the perpendicular distance from a shape's vertex to the opposite side.

height — full definition

  1. noun The measurement of how tall something or someone is, from base to top.
  2. noun The highest or most intense point of something.

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