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Levitation vs Elevation - What's the difference?

levitation | elevation |

As nouns the difference between levitation and elevation

is that levitation is the raising of something, such as a body, without apparent physical cause, allegedly using the power of the mind while elevation is 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 to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.

levitation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The raising of something, such as a body, without apparent physical cause, allegedly using the power of the mind
  • The suspension of something via technical means without any mechanical support, such as by magnetism
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  •   It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation , abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period.

    See also

    * buoyancy

    Anagrams

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    elevation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
  • The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
  • That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
  • 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.
  • The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
  • 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 of sight; distinguished from direction.
  • (lb) 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.
  • (lb) The raising of the —representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
  • Antonyms

    * disgust * demotion * depression * diminishment * reduction