Nominalized adjective. A nominalized adjective is an adjective that has undergone nominalization, and is thus used as a noun. For example, in the rich and the poor, the adjectives rich and poor function as nouns denoting people who are rich and poor respectively. Contents.
Antarctica with an average elevation of 7,500 feet above sea level.  Antarctica is also the driest, coldest and windiest continent on  earth, has the most fresh water (froze â¦ n) and is the largest desert.
For other uses, see Elevation (disambiguation) . Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth â approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. A sign at 8000 feet (2438 meters) in the San Bernardino Mountains. The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic system, vertical datum).