Word Meanings - HIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A variant of Height.

HEIGHT
AS. heáh, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above
HEIGHTEN
1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
VARIANT
1. Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse. 2. Changeable; changing; fickle. He is variant, he abit nowhere. Chaucer.
HEIGHTENER
One who, or that which, heightens.
INVARIANT
An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.
COVARIANT
A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor.
AHEIGHT
Aloft; on high. "Look up aheight." Shak.
UNIVARIANT
Having one degree of freedom or variability.
BREASTHEIGHT
The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garnison lean in firing.