head height
Where faces are
Head height is the vertical level at which a typical person's head sits when standing.
Something at head height poses a hazard to the face or skull: Watch out for that branch—it's right at head height.
The phrase often describes clearance: The doorway was barely head height.
- statureHeight or prestige
- standing tallRemaining proudly upright
- tallOf considerable height
- shortOf limited extent
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
skull · measurement · posture · chin up · standing · ceiling · doorway · door frame · growth · growth spurt · scalp · forehead · vertical · inches · clearance · low ceiling · ducking · reach
- measurementsstature, meters, depth, pound, inch
- body measurescubit, hand, span, fathom, foot
- craniometrycranial capacity, glabella, lambda, vertex, caliper
- fastener specsthread count, threads per inch, coarse thread, fine thread, UNC
- hydropowerhydropower, water turbine, dam, turbine, hydroelectricity
- hydroelectric damsturbine, penstock, spillway, powerhouse, headrace
vertical position/elevation
head heightfloor level
Horizontal building division
ground level · basement level · bottom · base level · below the waist
head, height, heads, headed, heading, header, headless, behead, beheaded