Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in May. 2009
In a sense that has to do with measurements, the term height may want to refer to various issues.
For example, to the stature that a person presents is called in common language as height. The height of an individual can vary according to the genetics Yet the feeding that she received during her early years. In relation to this. some phenomena that arise within the environment in which the individual lives, diets, exercise, a situation of generalized malnutrition due to poverty that presents the medium, among others, will be those that will be able to determine the average height that this or that region presents. And even if we don't want to make this a matter of genderAlso, sex is usually the cause of an average height in the case of men and another in that of women.
In another vein, for the geometry, the height or also called high dimensional, of an object or figure is a length or a distance of a geometric dimension, usually vertical or in the direction of gravity
.Likewise, with this same term and in the same scope, it will be used to refer to the vertical coordinate of the highest part of an object or location.
On the other hand, on Astronomywhere also the term is used, it is known as height of a star to the vertical arc counted from the horizon. The absolute value that it will show will always be less than or equal to 90 °, being also the same by prior agreement, positive, if it is of a visible star, if it is above the horizon and negative, if on the contrary, it is not visible, being below the horizon. In our days when it is necessary to measure the height of a star, a specific instrument is used, known as a sextant.
And finally where the term also has a special use is on the music, as height is the parameter used to determine the perception the pitch (frequency) of a sound, that is, the height of a sound will be the quality of acute or serious that it claims to be, in as much, this situation will depend directly on the frequency that it presents. This frequency is measured in hertz (number of times a sound wave vibrates per second), so the higher the frequency of the sound wave, the higher it will be. The height will ultimately determine the name of the notes.
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