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Angle of elevation

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(Geodesy) the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane.

See also: Elevation



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Next Spanish hides, with the tails still preserving their twist and the angle of elevation they had when the oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish Main -- a type of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and incurable are all constitutional vices.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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