Frequency, speed, time
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height | American Dictionary

height
noun[ C/U ]
us/hɑɪt/
the distance from the top to the bottom of something, or the quality of being tall:
[ C ]The heights of the two towers are equal.
[ U ]She’s of average height (= neither unusually short nor tall).
Height also refers to the distance that something is above a surface:
[ U ]You can adjust the height of the chair with this lever.
 the height of
The height of a condition or event is when it is most full of activity or when it is at its top level of achievement:
She was at the height of her career when they met.
 the height of
The height of also means an extreme example of:
the height of luxury/power/stupidity

Examples of height

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Free balloons carrying lighter instruments have continued these records to still higher regions, heights of 25 kilometres and more having been reached.
All species have maximum heights of 20 m or more.
One can see the heights of plateaus are proportional to the magnitude of intensity that coincides with the analytical predictions.
Is it mere coincidence that his philosophy commanded the heights for a generation and appeared to all contemporaries as the consummation of the movement?
In our own professional literature however, the situation is often portrayed as radiographers achieving emancipation from medical control and establishing new heights of professional autonomy.
The distances between structures are correlated with the barrier heights, but not exactly.
To analyse the trends in heights and how the differences in qualitative characteristics influenced their evolution a regression was carried out for all samples.
Each sample consisted of leaves picked from different heights in the tree canopies.
The profile was taken 1020 trip heights downstream of the trip.
There are two strong explanations for the significant decline in heights for those born in the 1910s and 1920s with respect to earlier decades.
The finely graduated degrees of light cast over the face of the moon also serve to reveal the heights and depths of its surface.
The constants a and b specify the heights of the waves.
However, the manipulation of location control at higher heights affected the salience of the located object/bowl containment relation.
There is, however, an increase in heights of cohorts who were born after the end of the 1930s.
The recovery in heights does not start until the 1930s, and only increases markedly for those born in the 1940s.
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Collocations withheight

height

These are words often used in combination with height.

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actual height
The genetic operators initially tuned the control input at every hopping interval, ensuring minimization of the error between the desired and actualheight.
average height
These changes in the averageheight of children were mirrored by changes in the average heights of the adult population.
chest height
I understand that a felling licence is not required in the case of coppice or underwood below 15 cm in diameter, measured at chestheight.
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