elevation : Idioms & Phrases


Angle of elevation

  • (Geodesy), the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

natural elevation

  • noun a raised or elevated geological formation
    elevation.
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