Definition:Height of Cylinder/Also known as

Height of Cylinder: 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