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# elevation

«elevation» in Mova's school dictionary: **The height of a place above sea level: The town is at an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an elevation, elevations; elevation — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The height of a place above sea level: The town is at an elevation of 500 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#m1)

2) Raising something or someone up, or moving someone to a higher rank: her elevation to captain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#m2)

3) (technical) A flat drawing of one side of a building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography maps show elevation with colours and contour lines; in maths you compare and subtract elevations to find how much higher one place is. Phrases: «at an elevation of», «high elevation», «elevation above sea level».

### examples

- The village is at an elevation of 1,200 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#x1)
- Plants are smaller at high elevation because it is cold and windy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#x2)
- The map uses brown for high elevation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#x3)
- The architect drew the front elevation of the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#x4)
- Her elevation to head girl surprised nobody. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#x5)
- Camp A is at 800 m and camp B at 1,300 m; the difference in elevation is 500 m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/#x6)

### note

Formal; casual speech says «height». From the verb «elevate» (raise). In maths, the difference in elevation = higher elevation minus lower elevation; below sea level is negative.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elevation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elevation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.