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Definition
elevation (height) — typically above sea level or above the earth's surface
or:
(metaphorically) a desirable height
or:
(metaphorically) a desirable height
- The pilots held their altitude, hovering as they searched for a suitable opening to land these dual-rotor beasts.p. 268.7
- Green Team trainees must flawlessly perform fifteen different tasks while free falling from as high as twenty-five thousand feet—generally a High Altitude, High Opening (HAHO) jump—over the deserts of the Southwest.p. 206.6
- Adam had completed his other tasks—altitude checks, checking for other jumpers, maintaining a heading—because he could stabilize himself within seconds, but that wasn't fast enough.p. 208.0
There are no more uses of "altitude" in Fearless.
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