ALTITUDES Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

altitudes

noun

plural of altitude

as in elevation

an area of high ground the air is thinner at higher altitudes

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Recent Examples of altitudes At lower altitudes, the SQ5 can probably beat its highway mpg rating by a point or two. — New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026 Routray says the shoot, which involved a crew of more than 450 people working at altitudes above 16,000 feet, tested the limits of what the company had built over the years. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026 Designed for a two-year mission, Swift has been slowly falling to lower and lower altitudes over the past two decades because of interactions with traces of the extreme upper atmosphere that extend out into the realm of low-Earth orbit. — CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 Only a small amount reaches the Earth’s surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes. — CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 According to his calculations, at all altitudes above 550 kilometers, the number of satellites is already high enough that even if all launches stopped today, the amount of debris in space would continue to grow for the foreseeable future. — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026 Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 This flexibility could allow Elytra to work with satellites operating at vastly different altitudes and built with varying sizes and configurations. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026 Currently, scientists don't have a precise understanding of the chemical reactions that occur between the pollutants and the atmospheric gases at high altitudes. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Her minimalist black sandal added a touch of elevation and formality to her shorts-and-T combo.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026
Curiosity has climbed through a vertical half-mile (1 kilometer) of rock layers so far, finding clay-rich, mudstone layers that give way at higher elevations to younger sandstones full of salty minerals.

— Ashwin R. Vasavada, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of elevation

Noun

Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
He was filled with ambition to see more of the country, write a spy thriller and literally climb more hills.

— Andrea Javor, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of hill

Noun

The zoning change would be necessary to build a development of that scale because local zoning guidelines for the downtown area cap building heights at four stories.

— Alexandra Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Now, 15 years later, Cook has catapulted the company to stratospheric heights by forging his own path.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of height

Noun

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua, citing the country’s water resources ministry, said a new lake formed after Wednesday’s floods high in the mountains had largely drained.

— Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Some thirty thousand tourists visited annually to soak in the mountain’s mineral springs and sip from a geyser of warm fizzy water.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026