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The earliest known use of the noun sitting height is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for sitting height is from 1665, in the writing of John Webb, architect. sitting height is formed within English, by compounding.
The meaning of SITTING HEIGHT is the distance from the vertex of the head to the supporting surface on which a person is sitting erect.
According to Etymonline, Height, has many different possible origins. height (n.) Old English hiehþu, Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit; the heavens, heaven," from root of heah "high" (see high) + -itha, Germanic abstract noun suffix (as in width, depth; see -th (2)).
The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover. [2] A series of terms is commonly used by libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books, ranging from folio (the largest), to quarto (smaller) and octavo (still smaller).
12 Ιουν 2020 · We aimed to establish which of sitting height (SH) and total height (Ht) is most appropriately used in the scaling of adult body mass (BM), waist circumference (WC), and forced vital capacity (FVC), considering likely explanations and proposing a suitable index for each.
SitHt/Ht assessment can detect disproportionate short stature in children with skeletal dysplasia, but age-, sex-, and population-specific reference charts are required to interpret this measurement. NHB children in the US have significantly lower SitHt/Ht than other children, which adds complexity to interpretation.
General relations of sitting height to stature and of sitting height and stature to weight. Get access to the full version of this article. View access options below.
