height

The term height it has various uses. It is, on the one hand, the path that can be traveled vertically between an object or Body and the I usually or any other surface that takes as a reference. This distance is known as height.
For example: "Look at that child playing at high altitude, he can fall and hurt himself", "The pot fell from a height of 10 meters before hitting the sidewalk", "How do you plan to reach a jar at that height without a ladder?".

Height, on the other hand, is the measure of something that is calculated from its foot or base to its upper end: "I need to gain more height to be able to play basketball", "My daughter has an impressive height, she has even already surpassed her father", "At 2.12 meters tall, John Tofflewy is the tallest player on the team".

In the sports field, we cannot fail to mention that height is also talked about. In particular, there is a modality that is called high jump and whose objective is that the athlete in question must overcome a horizontal bar or bar that is supported by two vertical supports.

In this sense, it should be noted that currently the historical record at the male level is held by Cuban Javier Sotomayor who has a mark of 2.42 meters. Meanwhile, in the female field, the athlete who holds this aforementioned honor is the Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova, who in 1987 managed to reach 2.09 meters.

This test is one of the most important within any Olympiad, specifically, it must be stated that the male modality was present since the first Olympic Games, which were held in Athens in 1896. However, the female one would not be introduced until the Amsterdam Games in 1928.

Height is also the part of the air that is at a certain elevation from the ground and the altitude estimated according to ocean level: "The game will be played at the height of the city of La Paz", "It is difficult to run at the height since you run out of air".

The concept of height is also used in a symbolic sense to refer to the perfection wave virtue . The high or elevated appears linked as the sublime: "You could not expect less from a writer of his height", "The interviewee answered the questions with great height".

In the same way we cannot ignore that in Spain, and more specifically in the autonomous community of Valencia belonging to the province of Castellón, there is a town called Altura. It is a population of approximately 4,000 inhabitants, which has the category of Royal Villa and which has an interesting architectural and artistic heritage.

Specifically, those who visit Altura cannot miss out on such unique enclaves as the Sanctuary of the Holy Cave or the Cartuja de Vall de Cristo, dating from the 14th century.

On geometry, the height is the distance that exists between a face (or a side) of a plane figure and the point (or vertex) that is furthest away following a perpendicular course.
The term also names the line or segment that makes it possible to measure that distance.

Finally, it can be said that height is also one of the tone qualities.