height meaning

• Noun: height  hIt
  1. The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
     - tallness 
  2. The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
     "at the height of her career"
     - acme, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top 
  3. (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
     - stature 
  4. Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
     - altitude

  Derived forms: heights

  See also: high, little, low, short, tall

  Type of: bodily property, degree, dimension, elevation, level, point, stage

  Encyclopedia: Height

• 
  [Architecture]
  1.

  The distance between two points aligned vertically.

  2.

  In buildings, the distance vertically from the average grade at front sides and/or rear of a building (or the average elevation of the curb or curbs of the streets faced by the building) to the average level of the roof.

• 
  [Medicine]
  n : the distance from the bottom to the top of something standing upright; esp : the distance from the lowest to the highest point of an animal body esp. of a human being in a natural standing position or from the lowest point to an arbitrarily chosen upper point ‹a man six feet in height› ‹a dog two feet in height at the shoulder›
  

• in height:    Adjective: in heig ...
• absolute height:    [Defence] (*) The ...
• actual height:    [Electronics]The h ...

Examples

1. the chinese team enjoyed the height advantage.
2. the climber fell from a great height.
3. these fluctuations dissipate with height.
4. he was small in height and slender in limb.
5. things were now come to a lamentable height.