What's your height? My height is 5'2 and a half.
My height is 5'9. Where did the term height come from?
Oh, the word height is derived from an Old English term 'heah'! Which, was originated by Proto-Germanic "xauxa-z"
Who is the tallest person in the world?
I believe the tallest man in the world that's currently living is Sultan Kosen!
What can you information can you gain about a person just from their height?
I feel like you won't gain much information about a person based on their height. Maybe just abstract stereotypes. Like for example basketball players being super tall.
Interesting. Are height and altitude related?
Height
Height is measure of vertical distance, either vertical extent (how "tall" something or someone is) or vertical position (how "high" a point is).
For example, "The height of that building is 50 m" or "The height of an airplane is about 10,000 m".
When the term is used to describe vertical position (of, e.g., an airplane) from sea level, height is more often called "altitude".
Furthermore, if the point is
from Proto-Germanic *"xauxa-z", from a PIE base "*keuk-". The derived noun "height", also the obsolete forms "heighth" and "highth", is from Old English "híehþo", later "héahþu", as it were from Proto-Germanic "*xaux-iþa".
In mathematics.
In elementary models of space, height may indicate the third dimension, the other two being length and width. Height is normal to the plane formed by