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Etymology

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From non- +‎ altitudinal.

Adjective

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nonaltitudinal (not comparable)

  1. Not based on or concerning altitude.
    • 1999, David M. Mickelson, John W. Attig, Glacial Processes, Past and Present, page 108:
      The single equilibrium line afforded by the AAR method implies that mass balance over a glacier's surface is uniform, that is, unaffected by local nonaltitudinal variations in precipitation, energy balance, and so forth.
    • 2005, Neil R. Miller, Frank Burton Walsh, William Fletcher Hoyt, Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-ophthalmology, page 157:
      Humphrey visual field in superior segmental hypoplasia showing a nonaltitudinal inferior visual field defect with milder superior depression.
    • 2016, Nancy J. Jacobs, Birders of Africa: History of a Network, page 255:
      A nonaltitudinal classification system of birds and other animals: Morris, Power of Animals, 144–45.