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It is typically used in contexts related to aviation, geography, or meteorology to refer to the height of an object above a specific reference point, usually sea level.
Example: "The aircraft was flying at an absolute altitude of 10,000 feet above sea level."
Alternatives: "true altitude" or "elevation above sea level."
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absolute altitude
noun
The vertical distance between the airplane and the surface below.
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The two main types are the pressure altimeter, or aneroid barometer, which approximates altitude above sea level by measuring atmospheric pressure, and the radio altimeter, which measures absolute altitude (distance above land or water) based on the time required for a radio wave signal to travel from an airplane, a weather balloon, or a spacecraft to the ground and back.
Beginning in 1959 it set 15 world records for in-flight performance, including an absolute speed record, and an absolute altitude record.
The elevation relative to the nearest road and absolute altitude were highly positively correlated (R = 0.799), meaning that trees at higher locations frequently grow on steep hills high above the neighboring roads.
Absolute altitude is the height over the local terrain.
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On each surface, during measurements, the minimum is arbitrarily set to zero since only relative but not absolute altitudes can be obtained from the device.
Because Doppler information alone does not provide sufficient information of the absolute target altitude as well as the elevation maneuvering direction (ascending or descending), the target positions are estimated using the extended Kalman filer that exploits different hypotheses of the initial conditions.
+ ε where y is the pigmentation score mean of a population, a is the intercept, b 1 and b 2 are the slopes (or the clines) of the absolute latitude and altitude values, and ε is the residual.
The absolute difference in altitude between two sites (in m) was used as a measure of environmental contrast, and the waterway distance (in km) as a measure of dispersal opportunity.
His final ride at the kilometre distance was on May 12 , 2007 in La Paz, Bolivia, where he tackled the absolute world record at altitude (58.85 sec) set in 2001 by Frenchman Arnaud Tournant on the same track.
In his defence, the conditions in which he made his T20I debut were the toughest in the world for a spinner – an absolute road at the high altitude of the Wanderers with a small, fast outfield – but the manner in which he bowled was concerning.
Although qualitative estimates of Oh absolute density as a function of altitude do exist, a definitive density profile shape has not yet been established.
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