ELEVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elevation mean? 

• ELEVATION (noun)
  The noun ELEVATION has 8 senses:

1. the event of something being raised upward

2. the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

3. angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

4. a raised or elevated geological formation

5. distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)

6. (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump

7. drawing of an exterior of a structure

8. the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

  Familiarity information: ELEVATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The event of something being raised upward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

elevation; lift; raising

Context example:

a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)

Derivation:

elevate (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

acme; elevation; height; meridian; peak; pinnacle; summit; superlative; tiptop; top

Context example:

at the top of his profession

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)

Derivation:

elevate (raise in rank or condition)

elevate (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

ALT; altitude; EL; elevation

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

angular position (relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A raised or elevated geological formation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

elevation; natural elevation

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Meronyms (parts of "elevation"):

incline; side; slope (an elevated geological formation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elevation"):

highland; upland (elevated (e.g., mountainous) land)

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

mount; mountain (a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill)

foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))

ridge (a long narrow natural elevation or striation)

swell (a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor))

Derivation:

elevate (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

there was snow at the higher elevations

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elevation"):

isometry (equality of elevation above sea level)

altitude; height (elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface)

grade; ground level (the height of the ground on which something stands)

water level (the level of the surface of a body of water)

Derivation:

elevate (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sense 6

Meaning:

(ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

a dancer of exceptional elevation

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

leap (the distance leaped (or to be leaped))

Domain category:

ballet; concert dance (a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Drawing of an exterior of a structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

architectural plan; plan (scale drawing of a structure)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aggrandisement; aggrandizement; elevation

Context example:

his elevation to cardinal

Hypernyms ("elevation" is a kind of...):

increase; step-up (the act of increasing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elevation"):

ego trip; self-aggrandisement; self-aggrandizement (an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance)

Derivation:

elevate (raise in rank or condition)

elevate (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position)

 Context examples 

An electrocardiographic finding of J point and ST segment elevation in the absence of other signs of acute ischemia or pericarditis.

(Early Repolarization, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The researchers found that all of Titan's highest peaks are about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) in elevation.

(Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks, NASA)

At the more than 14,000-foot elevation, it's difficult to breathe, water freezes overnight in camps, and the scientists often must walk alone in search of fossils.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

In some cases, the dust clouds reach up to 40 miles (60 kilometers) or more in elevation.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

A disorder characterized by elevation of the body's temperature above the upper limit of normal.

(Fever, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Scientists also found that high-elevation areas on Ceres displace mass in the interior.

(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)

Smaller lakes on Titan, it turns out, appear at elevations several hundred feet, or meters, higher than Titan's sea level.

(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)

An abnormal elevation of body temperature, usually as a result of a pathologic process.

(Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A congenital or acquired abnormality characterized by elevation of the hemidiaphragm.

(Diaphragm Eventration, NCI Thesaurus)

There is often marked elevation of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in the blood.

(Choriocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)