different between altitude vs culminant

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin altit?d? (“height”), from altus (“high”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ælt.??tju?d/, /?ælt.??t??u?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ælt.??tu?d/

Noun

altitude (countable and uncountable, plural altitudes)

1. The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.

2. A vertical distance.
3. (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.

4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
5. Height of rank or excellence; superiority.

   • Whoever has an ambition to be heard in a crowd, must press, and squeeze, and thrust, and climb, with indefatigable pains, till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them.

6. (dated, in the plural) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
7. Highest point or degree.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• altitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• altitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• latitude

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altit?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.ti.tyd/

Noun

altitude f (plural altitudes)

1. altitude

Related terms

• haut

Further reading

• “altitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altit?d?.

Noun

altitude f (plural altitudes)

1. altitude

Related terms

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altit?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a?.ti.?tu.ð?/
• Hyphenation: al?ti?tu?de
• Rhymes: -ud?i

Noun

altitude f (plural altitudes)

1. altitude

Related terms

English

Etymology

From French culminant.

Adjective

culminant (comparative more culminant, superlative most culminant)

1. being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude
2. (by extension) predominant

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kul.mi?nant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kul.mi?nan/
• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

culminant (masculine and feminine plural culminants)

1. culminating

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyl.mi.n??/
• Homophone: culminants

Adjective

culminant (feminine singular culminante, masculine plural culminants, feminine plural culminantes)

1. highest (typically of mountains)

Verb

culminant

1. present participle of culminer

Romanian

Etymology

From French culminant.

Adjective

culminant m or n (feminine singular culminant?, masculine plural culminan?i, feminine and neuter plural culminante)

1. culminating

Declension