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?
the length and width.
Height is also used as a name for some more abstract definitions. These include:
1. The altitude of a triangle, which is the length from a vertex of a triangle to the line formed by the opposite side;
2. A measurement in a circular segment of the distance from the midpoint of the arc of the circular segment to the midpoint of the line joining the endpoints of the arc (see diagram in circular segment);
3. In a rooted tree,
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