different between azimuth vs altitude

English

Etymology

From Old French *azimut (modern French azimut), from Arabic ??????????? pl (as-sum?t, “the directions”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æz?m??/
• Hyphenation: azi?muth

Noun

azimuth (plural azimuths)

1. An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.

2. The quadrant of an azimuth circle.

Derived terms

• altazimuth
• azimuthal
• azimuthally
• backazimuth / back azimuth

Related terms

• nadir
• zenith

Translations

Further reading

• azimuth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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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

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