This article is about the measure of vertical distance. For other uses, see Height (disambiguation).
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Height is measure of vertical distance, either vertical extent (how "tall" something or someone is) or vertical position (how "high" a point is).
For example, "The height of that building is 50 m" or "The height of an airplane in-flight is about 10,000 m".
For example, "Shaq O’Neal is 7 foot 1 inches in vertical height."
When the term is used to describe vertical position (of, e.g., an airplane) from sea level, height is more often called altitude.[1]
Furthermore, if the point is attached to the Earth (e.g., a mountain peak), then altitude (height above sea level) is called elevation.[2]
In a two-dimensional Cartesian space, height is measured along the vertical axis (y) between a specific point and another that does not have the same y-value. If both points happen to have the same y-value, then their relative height is zero. In the case of three-dimensional space, height is measured along the vertical z axis, describing a distance from (or "above") the x-y plane.
^Strahler, Alan (2013). Introducing Physical Geography (6th ed.). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. p. 42. ISBN 9781118396209. OCLC 940600903.
^Petersen, James F.; Sack, Dorothy; Gabler, Robert E. (4 February 2016). Physical Geography. Cengage Learning. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-305-65264-4. Note that altitude usually refers to a height in the air (above sea level) and elevation refers to height on the surface [of the Earth] above (or below) sea level.
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