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height

Of a plane figure or solid, the perpendicular distance from the vertex to the base; see altitude.
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The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep--into the evil.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet.
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Then, again, it has reference to quantity, as, for instance, in the case of a man's height; for he is said to 'have' a height of three or four cubits.
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