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What is the difference between angular and altitude?

angular | altitude |

As nouns the difference between angular and altitude

is that angular is a bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes while altitude is the absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.

As an adjective angular

is relating to an angle or angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as in, an angular figure.

angular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to an angle or angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as in, an angular figure.
  • * '>citation
    • In overall appearance, katakana symbols are more angular in shape and hiragana are more rounded. Here are the first five sounds of each script (a, i, u, e, o). Compare these two sets of symbols and see if you can identify these features:
    Hiragana'' ??????????
    ''Katakana     ??????????
  • Measured by an angle; as in, angular distance.
  • Lean, lank, rawboned.
  • Ungraceful.
  • (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character
    • ''He's remarkably angular in his habits and appearance.
    ''She is an angular female.

    Synonyms

    * (sharp and stiff in character) rugged, rude

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
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    altitude

    English

    (wikipedia altitude)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes , there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • A vertical distance.
  • (geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
  • (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
  • Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • (dated, in the plural) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The man of law began to get into his altitudes .
    (Richardson)
  • Highest point or degree.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue.

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