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Definition of Sea level
1. Noun. Level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth.
Definition of Sea level
1. Noun. The nominal height of the surface of the oceans above which heights of geographical features and aircraft flight levels are measured. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Level
Literary usage of Sea level
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Panama Canal by Frederic Jennings Haskin (1913)
"To have undertaken a sea-level canal would have involved this Government in ...
It is, perhaps, putting it too strongly to say that a sea-level canal is a ..."
2. The Panama Canal by Frederic Jennings Haskin (1913)
"To have undertaken a sea-level canal would have involved this Government in
difficulties so great that even with all the wealth and determination of America ..."
3. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Other conditions remaining constant, the sea-level would lie depressed everywhere
... Similarly, if the sea-level rose at one point, it would seem that it ..."
4. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Displacement Relative to sea level.—When we say that one fault block has moved
up or down with respect to another, we do not imply anything as to the actual ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"Since all other lines are derived from the base by calculation, all the lines
will be reduced to sea level without further correction if the base itself is ..."
6. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1907)
"Evaporation from the Salton Sea at 6 ft. per annum plus rainfall would reduce
the water accession as follows: At water surface 200 ft. below sea level, ..."
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