HIGH-ALTITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-altitude mean? 

• HIGH-ALTITUDE (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-ALTITUDE has 1 sense:

1. occurring at or from a relative high altitude

  Familiarity information: HIGH-ALTITUDE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-ALTITUDE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring at or from a relative high altitude

Synonyms:

high-altitude; high-level

Context example:

high-level bombing

Similar:

high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))

 Context examples 

The mechanism for forming these high-altitude clouds appears to be different from what happens in the troposphere.

(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)

Researchers found a large, high-altitude cloud made of the same frozen chemical.

(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)

Instead, is has a puffy atmosphere that is free of high-altitude clouds.

(NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere, NASA)

High-altitude tropical clouds trap heat in the atmosphere.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)

The smaller ozone hole in 2017 was strongly influenced by an unstable and warmer circulation pattern in the Antarctic stratosphereoffsite link that minimized the formation of high-altitude clouds.

(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)

The finding lends support to the idea that the evolution of present-day animals in the Arctic traces back to ancestors that adapted to life in cold regions in the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau.

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

The spacecraft spied a broad, warm high-altitude vortex at Saturn's southern pole but none at the planet's northern pole.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

Penitentes are present on Earth and grow to between 1 to 5 metres tall, but they are restricted to high-altitude tropical and subtropical conditions, such as in the Andes.

(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Multiple worlds in our own solar system, including Titan, are blanketed by clouds and high-altitude hazes.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

From 1958 to 1962, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. ran high-altitude tests with exotic code names like Starfish, Argus and Teak.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)