What is the difference between height and length?

Answer 1

No. Length is a two-dimensional measure, whereas height is a 3-dimensional measure. Something (a 3-D object) having height, will also have length. But a 2-D object can never have any height. Example a picture of a table has no height "literally" (we can just make an assumption). But an actual table (which is 3-dimensional object) has height. Height is the distance of the object's top from the earth. Heigth is measured vertically. Length is measured horizontally. It is parallel to the ground.

Answer 2

Length is parralell to the horizontal x plane

Height is parralell to the vertical y plane

Length and Height can be two different values independent of each other.

I.e. either can be longer than the other without changing the fact Length (or height respectively in its alterior Y plane) will always be considered whatevers horizontal to the x plane. X is for eg. say you laid a A4 paper flat on a table and stood facing it, from a graphic 2D perspective, the X plane would be horizontal the the bottom of the A4 papers edge closest to you & thus you would consider anything drawn parralell to this horizontal x plane, length.

Sorry if this is confusing but it actually is a hard question when you think about it. LOL

Answer 3

A1. HEIGHT is always a VERTICAL measurement.

LENGTH is always a HORIZONTAL measurement.

A2. However, in some activities, vertical height and horizontal distance have different scales. This used to be the case in land surveying, where height was measured in feet and decimals, and length in chains and links.

This is still the case in commercial aviation, where vertical height is given in (thousands of) feet or meters, and horizontal distance in miles.

[Maybe the mariners still have depths in fathoms and horizontal distance in nautical miles.]

But these exceptions just use different measuring scalesto avoid confusion. Their intention to differentiate between height and length is very clear.

Answer 4

If we measure from the constant base point, that is, sea level or above the earth's surface, i.e, Altitude.

Ex: The flight of an aircraft at 40,000 ft - altitude (above mean sea level)

If we measure the top of something with any base point, i.e, Height.

Ex: Height of this building is 300 ft from the ground, 250 ft from the 4th floor - Height (base point can be as different as we require)

Answer 5

Volume is how much space something takes up. Altitude is how high it is. It's difficult to comment on the "difference" because they're not even remotely similar things. It's like asking what the difference between orange and 3 is.

Answer 6

Answer 1The term length is used for relatively short measures where a ruler or meter measure is used. The term distance is used for measures between cities, countries, and or districts. Answer 2The difference between distance and length is:

* Distance: How far one travels from point A to point B. * Length: The distance measured between point A and point B. Both length and distance alike cannot be negative values. You can travel backwards, however you cannot move back in time to obtain a negative distance.

This is where the absolute value comes in. Calculating the absolute value does not necessarily mean taking a value and making it positive. The actual definition is the distance measured from value zero. Which, ironically enough, does mean making the said value positive. Both distance and length should be determined by an absolute value.

Answer 7

I would use lenght when I meassure something which it is horizontal. Height I would use when I meassure something down.

Answer 8

Technically, yes: both are a distance measured upwards from sea level in feet or meters. Usually, elevation is applied to land, whereas altitude is applied to aircraft in flight.

Answer 9

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