Elevation is the height of a geographic location above a fixed reference point.

Elevation may also refer to:

Math and science

  • Elevation (ballistics), the angle between a weapon barrel and the horizontal plane
  • Elevation (astronomy), one component of the horizontal coordinate system
  • Elevation (view), used in architectural drawing to represent a building facade
  • Elevation (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion
  • Elevation (emotion)
  • Elevation, a type of semantic change in linguistics

Music

  • "Elevation" (song), by U2
  • "Elevation", a song by the American band Television from the album Marquee Moon
  • "Elevation", a song by Zion I from the album Mind Over Matter
  • "Elevation", a Dutch trance song composed by Jack Molenschot
  • "Elevation", a jazz song written by Gerry Mulligan and recorded by Elliot Lawrence
  • Elevation (Yonder Mountain String Band album), 1999
  • Elevation (Anggun album), 2008
  • Elevation (Black Eyed Peas album), 2022
  • Elevation (Pharoah Sanders album), 1974
  • Elevation (Lawson Rollins album), 2011
  • "Elevation", a pop song by English band Erasure, 2014

Other uses

  • Elevation, New Zealand, a locality in the Marlborough District
  • Elevation (liturgy), the lifting of consecrated bread and wine in Mass
  • Elevation (novella), a 2018 novella by Stephen King
  • Elevation, or privilege escalation, use of a computer security exploit to access protected information or functions
  • AEW Dark: Elevation, professional wrestling web television program
  • Elevation (emotion), an emotion elicited by witnessing acts of moral goodness
  • Elevation (film), an American post-apocalyptic action thriller film
  • Elevation to the peerage
  • Help:Elevation, a guide to using wikitext to display elevation

See also

  • Elevated (disambiguation)
  • Elevator (disambiguation)