IN HEIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in height mean? 

• IN HEIGHT (adjective)
  The adjective IN HEIGHT has 1 sense:

1. having a specified height

  Familiarity information: IN HEIGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN HEIGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a specified height

Context example:

five feet in height

Similar:

tall (great in vertical dimension; high in stature)

 Context examples 

In addition, the researchers did not observe differences in height, weight or body mass index — a measure of healthy weight status — between the peanut consumers and avoiders at any point during the study.

(Peanut allergy prevention strategy is nutritionally safe, NIH)

There can be big differences in height, weight, and build among healthy children.

(Child Development, NIH)

From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years from October 2011 to October 2015.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

These are herbaceous, drought-tolerant perennial plants growing to 1 or 2 m in height.

(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)

You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, figure, and the colour of your hair.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In height, strength, and reputation for gameness there was very little to choose between them, but Wilson had been the more severely tested.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tree was a good sixty feet in height, and if it only fell the right way it would easily cross the chasm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Preliminary calculations from OCAMS observations show that the boulder is closer to 164 feet (50 meters) in height, with a width of approximately 180 feet (55 meters).

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)

The finding is intriguing, because it suggests that the lower-altitude hexagon may influence what happens above, and that it could be a towering structure hundreds of miles in height.

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