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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
• Help:Elevation, a guide to using wikitext to display elevation

See also

• All pages with titles containing Elevation
• Elevated (disambiguation)
• Elevator (disambiguation)