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  2. Slant range - Wikipedia

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    An example of slant range is the distance to an aircraft flying at high altitude with respect to that of the radar antenna. The slant range (1) is the hypotenuse of the triangle represented by the altitude of the aircraft and the distance between the radar antenna and the aircraft's ground track (point (3) on the earth directly below the aircraft).

  3. Cone - Wikipedia

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    The slant height of a right circular cone is the distance from any point on the circle of its base to the apex via a line segment along the surface of the cone. It is given by r 2 + h 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {r^{2}+h^{2}}}} , where r {\displaystyle r} is the radius of the base and h {\displaystyle h} is the height.

  4. Frustum - Wikipedia

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    The height of a frustum is the perpendicular distance between the planes of the two bases. Cones and pyramids can be viewed as degenerate cases of frusta, where one of the cutting planes passes through the apex (so that the corresponding base reduces to a point). The pyramidal frusta are a subclass of prismatoids.

  5. Height finder - Wikipedia

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    In World War II, a height finder was an optical rangefinder used to determine the altitude of an aircraft (actually the slant range from the emplacement which was combined with the angle of sight, in a mechanical computer, to produce altitude), used to direct anti-aircraft guns. [2] [3] Examples of American [3] and Japanese [4] versions exist ...

  6. Base (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A skeletal pyramid with its base highlighted. In geometry, a base is a side of a polygon or a face of a polyhedron, particularly one oriented perpendicular to the direction in which height is measured, or on what is considered to be the "bottom" of the figure. [1]

  7. Hypotenuse - Wikipedia

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    A right-angled triangle and its hypotenuse. In geometry, a hypotenuse is the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle. [1] It is the longest side of any such triangle; the two other shorter sides of such a triangle are called catheti or legs.

  8. Rifleman's rule - Wikipedia

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    Typically, the range of an elevated target is considered in terms of the slant range, incorporating both the horizontal distance and the elevation distance (possibly negative, i.e. downhill), as when a rangefinder is used to determine the distance to target. The slant range is not compatible with standard ballistics tables for estimating bullet ...

  9. Inclined plane - Wikipedia

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    Escalators and slanted conveyor belts are also forms of an inclined plane. [6] In a funicular or cable railway a railroad car is pulled up a steep inclined plane using cables. Inclined planes also allow heavy fragile objects, including humans, to be safely lowered down a vertical distance by using the normal force of the plane to reduce the ...