Definition of Elevetion
El`e*va"tion (?), n. [L.
elevatio: cf. F. élévation.]
1. The act of raising from a lower place,
condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things,
persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of
grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind,
thoughts, or character.
2. Condition of being elevated; height;
exaltation. "Degrees of elevation above us."
Locke.
His style . . . wanted a little
elevation. Sir H. Wotton.
3. That which is raised up or elevated; an
elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a
hill.
4. (Astron.) The distance of a
celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle
intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the
elevation of the pole, or of a star.
5. (Dialing) The angle which the style
makes with the substylar line.
6. (Gunnery) The movement of the axis
of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that
is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o&?; sight;
-- distinguished from direction.
7. (Drawing) A geometrical projection
of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the
horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by
the ancients the orthography.
Angle of elevation (Geodesy), the
angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane. --
Elevation of the host (R. C. Ch.), that
part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his head
for the people to adore.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
- Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation.
- That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
- The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
- The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
- The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction.
- A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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