Definition:Cylinder/Height
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Definition
The height of a cylinder is the length of a line segment drawn perpendicular to the base and its opposite plane.
In the above diagram, $h$ is the height of the cylinder $ACBDFE$.
Also known as
Some sources refer to the height of a cylinder as its altitude.
However, on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ we prefer to reserve the word altitude to mean the perpendicular line segment itself, and not its length.
Also see
- Results about cylinders can be found here.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cylinder
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cylinder