Meaning of height in English

Free balloons carrying lighter instruments have continued these records to still higher regions, heights of 25 kilometres and more having been reached.

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All species have maximum heights of 20 m or more.

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One can see the heights of plateaus are proportional to the magnitude of intensity that coincides with the analytical predictions.

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Is it mere coincidence that his philosophy commanded the heights for a generation and appeared to all contemporaries as the consummation of the movement?

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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.

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The distances between structures are correlated with the barrier heights, but not exactly.

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To analyse the trends in heights and how the differences in qualitative characteristics influenced their evolution a regression was carried out for all samples.

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Each sample consisted of leaves picked from different heights in the tree canopies.

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There are two strong explanations for the significant decline in heights for those born in the 1910s and 1920s with respect to earlier decades.

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The finely graduated degrees of light cast over the face of the moon also serve to reveal the heights and depths of its surface.

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The constants a and b specify the heights of the waves.

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However, the manipulation of location control at higher heights affected the salience of the located object/bowl containment relation.

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There is, however, an increase in heights of cohorts who were born after the end of the 1930s.

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The recovery in heights does not start until the 1930s, and only increases markedly for those born in the 1940s.

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There was no recovery in heights until the 1930s.

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Collocations with height

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 actual height.

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average height

These changes in the average height of children were mirrored by changes in the average heights of the adult population.

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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 chest height.

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