Definition of Sea-level

1. Adjective. Lying below the normal level. "A low-lying desert"

Exact synonyms: Low-lying
Similar to: Lowland

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea-level

sea-duty
sea-eagle
sea-eagles
sea-ear
sea-ears
sea-floor spreading
sea-front
sea-god
sea-green
sea-gull
sea-hog
sea-lane
sea-lanes
sea-lavender family
sea-lettuce family
sea-level (current term)
sea-lion
sea-mail
sea-mell
sea-orb
sea-parrot
sea-parrots
sea-pen
sea-pie
sea-poose
sea-purse
sea-puss
sea-rocket
sea-sickness
sea-star

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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