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What is the noun for elevation?

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elevation
  1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
  2. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
  3. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
  4. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
  5. The measured distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
  6. The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
  7. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
  8. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
  9. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “The warriors suffered no discernible casualties and managed to take up positions on a small elevation only a few hundred yards to the south.”
      “He wanted to know his elevation above sea level, and he planned soon to measure the true altitude of the Rocky Mountains.”
      “Colonel Loyle mounted his horse and rode through the front garden to an elevation in the road towards the burial ground.”
elevator
  1. (US) A permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically, used to transport people and goods.
  2. A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator)
  3. (aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
  4. A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
  5. (anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
  6. A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Proceed to the next floor using the elevator.”
      “That same dust accumulates in the grain elevator and, therefore, continual good housekeeping is very important.”
      “As the elevator doors were about to close, someone pushed the open button outside.”
elevatedness
  1. The quality of being elevated.
elevated
  1. An elevated railway.
elevations
  1. plural of elevation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If Joe has acrophobia, just say he may not be suitable for work at high elevations.”
      “This is also when Kevin cashes in all the rain checks to play some golf at the lower elevations.”
      “At higher elevations on these mountains, the parent material is acid crystalline rock.”
elevateds
  1. plural of elevated
  2. Examples:
    1. “While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.”
elevators
  1. plural of elevator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By the 1920s a state-subsidized system of grain elevators, silos, and storage at railheads helped to ease the cycle of glut and scarcity.”
      “The two main contenders are hypersonic ramjets or scramjets and nanotube-based space elevators.”
      “There are stairways, escalators, and elevators in all quadrants of the station.”
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