α. Middle English altemetrie, 1600s– altimetry.
β. 1500s altemetria, 1500s altimetria.
altimetryn.
/alˈtɪmᵻtri/, /ɔːlˈtɪmᵻtri/, /ɒlˈtɪmᵻtri/, U.S. /ælˈtɪmətri/, /ɑlˈtɪmətri/ 1. The measurement of altitude or height; spec. the measurement of the altitude of something relative to sea level, or of the variation of altitude over an area.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measurement of other dimensions > [noun] > of height or depth > of altitude or height
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hypsometry1847
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1468 Ful many a worthi clerc ther is, That writen upon this clergie The bokes of Altemetrie, Planemetrie..Whiche as belongen..Unto these Astronomiens.
1679 J. Moxon Eng. Globe To Rdr. Nor could my admiration be less, when I saw how..the Suns Altitude was naturally and plainly found by it..; Nor did it seem less strange to me..that Altimetry could possibly have any relation to a Globe.
1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. II. 15 Longimetry pleas'd them far more than Altimetry, because they thought it more necessary to know the breadth of a River, than height of a Tree.
1771 T. Breaks Compl. Syst. Land-surveying p. ii In the ninth Book I have given Altimetry and Longimetry, (or the Method of measuring accessible and inaccessible Heights and Distances).
1837 Railway Mag. July 1 (title) Tables for barometric altimetry.
1848 M. L. Charlesworth Ministry of Life vi. 103 ‘O Harry! you know I don't learn algebra.’ ‘Well then altimetry! I think perhaps that might be spared for to-day!’
1909 Nature 17 June 479/1 The altimetry of the Pelvous-Écrins massif.
1918 Field Artillery Jrnl. 8 564 The terrains are constructed exactly to scale, both as to planimetry and altimetry, in accordance with the map.
1986 M. U. Sagitov et al. Lunar Gravimetry 187 Mean lunar radius determined by laser altimetry of the Moon's equatorial zone.
2004 D. Pugh Changing Sea Levels 248 Sea levels measured by satellite altimetry.
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?1537 R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande Preface, sig. +. iii.v The fyrst is named Altimetria, that is, to measure a quantyte after hys length only.
1687 D. Abercromby Academia Scientiarum 82 Geometry may be divided into these three subordinate parts, Altimetry, Planimetry, and Stereometry; Altimetry is the Art of measuring streight Lines.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Altimetry, the first part of Geometrical Practise, which reaches the measuring of Lines.
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