All 3 Uses of
altitude
in
Fearless
- 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
- The pilots held their altitude, hovering as they searched for a suitable opening to land these dual-rotor beasts.†
p. 268.7 *
Definition:
elevation (height) -- typically above sea level or above the earth's surface
or:
(metaphorically) a desirable height
or:
(metaphorically) a desirable height