altitudeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈælt.ɪˌtjuːd/, /ˈælt.ɪˌt͡ʃuːd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈælt.ɪˌtuːd/

名詞

altitude (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 altitudes)

1. The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

   As the altitude increases, the temperature gets lower, so remember to bring warm clothes to the mountains.

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

   The perpendicular height of a triangle is known as its altitude.

4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
5. Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
   • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], OCLC 752990886:

     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.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:

     The man of law began to get into his altitudes.

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:

     Is this deified passion , in its greatest altitudes , fitted to stand the day ?

7. Highest point or degree.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue.

派生語

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.

アナグラム

• latitude