- the height to which something is elevated or to which it rises: The elevation of the tower is 80 feet.
- the altitude of a place above sea level or ground level.
- an elevated place, thing, or part; an eminence.
- loftiness; grandeur or dignity; nobleness: elevation of mind.
- the act of elevating: Her swift elevation to the chancellorship took no one by surprise.
- the state of being elevated: She was fully enjoying her elevation to movie stardom.
- a drawing or design that represents an object or structure as being projected geometrically on a vertical plane parallel to one of its sides.
- Surveying.
- angle of elevation.
- the distance above a datum level.
- the ability of a dancer to stay in the air while executing a step or the height thus attained.
- the lifting by the celebrant of the Eucharistic elements immediately after consecration, for adoration by the communicants.
- the act of elevating or the state of being elevated
- the height of something above a given or implied place, esp above sea level
- a raised area; height
- nobleness or grandeur; loftiness
- a drawing to scale of the external face of a building or structure
- the external face of a building or structure
- a ballet dancer's ability to leap high
- the lifting up of the Host at Mass for adoration
- astronomy another name for altitude (def. 3)
- the angle formed between the muzzle of a gun and the horizontal
- the angular distance between the plane through a point of observation and an object above it
- linguistics another term for amelioration
