What is the meaning of the word "elevation"?

Definitions:

  1. (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump copy to clipboard noun
    • a dancer of exceptional elevation copy to clipboard
  2. distance of something above a reference point, such as sea level copy to clipboard noun
    • There was snow at the higher elevations. copy to clipboard
  3. the event of something being raised upward copy to clipboard noun
    • an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon copy to clipboard

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