[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

elevation \el`eva"tion\, n. l. elevatio: cf. f.
   'el'evation.
   1. the act of raising from a lower place, condition, or
      quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons,
      the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain;
      elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or
      character.
      1913 webster

   2. condition of being elevated; height; exaltation. "degrees
      of elevation above us." --locke.
      1913 webster

            his style . . . wanted a little elevation. --sir h.
                                                  wotton.
      1913 webster

   3. that which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or
      station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
      1913 webster

   4. astron. the distance of a celestial object above the
      horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted
      between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of
      the pole, or of a star.
      1913 webster

   5. dialing the angle which the style makes with the
      substylar line.
      1913 webster

   6. gunnery the movement of the axis of a piece in a
      vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the
      angle between the axis of the piece and the line o? sight;
      -- distinguished from direction.
      1913 webster

   7. drawing a geometrical projection of a building, or other
      object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon;
      orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by
      the ancients the orthography.
      1913 webster

   angle of elevation geodesy, the angle which an ascending
      line makes with a horizontal plane.

   elevation of the host r. c. ch., that part of the mass in
      which the priest raises the host above his head for the
      people to adore.
      1913 webster
see also:
angle of elevation elevation of the host 

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