Timeline for What is the word used to describe things ordered by height?
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| Aug 24, 2023 at 2:37 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | Height order is not idiomatic in my form of American English. Order of height would be way more natural. | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 14:28 | comment | added | Barmar | @civitas It's been a long time, but I think it was when we were lining up to go to lunch, fire drills, or to get on the bus for a field trip. | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 11:43 | comment | added | civitas | @Barmar, That might be so the teacher could then select teams equalizing heights of players - TeamA being the even ones and TeamB the odd (more accurately ends towards the middle). | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 0:11 | comment | added | No Name | @Barmar Was it picture day? It's so the photographer only has to adjust the seat in one direction | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 19:54 | vote | accept | fivestones | ||
| Aug 22, 2023 at 19:54 | comment | added | fivestones | This answer is great. I appreciated all the answers I’m reading here, 7 of them so far, but this hits the nail on the head. Both with hypsometrical and with height order. Hypsometrical is exactly the word I was hoping existed and was looking for (sometimes a person wants to use a technical word in a colloquial context among specific friends who know and understand that person because it’s the exact word for the job even if none of them has ever heard of it before), and height order is the obvious thing to use in regular conversation. Thank you! | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 19:10 | comment | added | ermanen | I think mentioning hypsometrical makes it even better answer. It is just a bonus part with a relevant explanation coming after the actual answer that works. The OP was wondering about possible words ending with -cal like chronological in the question. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 17:45 | comment | added | High Performance Mark | I think this answer would be better if it dropped the stuff about hypsometrical entirely. As the answer itself states, no one would use the word in regard to the ordering of a line up of children in a photograph. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 15:57 | comment | added | Ty Hayes | "in height order" sounds perfectly idiomatic to my British English ear - more so than any of the other options here | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 15:50 | comment | added | pacoverflow | This really doesn't sound right, given that height is a noun and not an adjective. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 14:32 | comment | added | Barmar | "in height order" is how my teachers always used to tell us to line up. I'm not sure why we needed to do it that way, but it was pretty common. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 6:36 | history | answered | ermanen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |