different between altitude vs nimbostratus

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?t?s

Noun

nimbostratus (plural nimbostrati)

1. (meteorology) According to the World Meteorological Organization, a mid-level, principal cloud type, generally formless and dark grey in colour, which forms from altostratus occurring in layers at the middle altitude of the troposphere (usually above 2400 metres). Nimbostratus usually brings precipitation as the mid-level clouds thicken and subside into the low level of the troposphere. Frontal or cyclonic lift can also carry the top of a deep nimbostratus layer into the high levels of the troposphere. Also classified or characterized as multi-level; abbreviated Ns.

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nimbo?str?tus/, [?nimbo??s?t?r?t?us?]
• Rhymes: -?tus
• Syllabification: nim?bo?stra?tus

Noun

nimbostratus

1. Synonym of laaja sadepilvi (“nimbostratus”)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French nimbo-stratus

Noun

nimbostratus m (uncountable)

1. nimbostratus

Declension