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Definition of Summits

1. summit [n] - See also: summit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Summits

Literary usage of Summits

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... the mean interval being 60 m. ; the summits arc, as a rule, rounded, and the slopes gentle. The culminating points are in the centre of the range: ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The highest summits are about 8000 feet. The Alps, the highest mountains in Europe (unless Mount Elbruz in the Caucasus is claimed as European), ..."

3. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1891)
"One diagonal, A.—The diagonal has two summits ; we must have on each side of it one summit, and there remain r—4 summits which may Ъо distributed between ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"The summits of the piny forest shook. But Sleep, ere Zeus espied, ensconced him there, Perch'd on a lofty fir, that tallest grew ..."

5. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1869)
"... and the summits of the Coast Range sank under the blue horizon, I bade farewell — . yes, I do not doubt, forever — to those scenes which, ..."

6. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1883)
"... and the summits of the Coast Range sank under the blue horizon, I bade farewell — yes, I do not doubt, forever — to those scenes which, however changed ..."

7. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences, William Sidney Tangier Smith (1904)
"Slope of summits.—It has been seen that the main ridge and certain of the branch ridges are, in a general way, level in the direction of the length of the ..."

8. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"Slope of summits.—It has been seen that the main ridge and certain of the branch ridges are, in a general way, level in the direction of the length of the ..."

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