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sea-level
1. The mean level of the surface of the sea, the mean level between high and low tide.
1806Gazetteer Scot. (ed. 2) 550 The altitude of which is 1498½ feet above the sea level. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 444 The height of the barometer at sea-level. 1894Nature 26 July 293/2 The correction of the individual readings of the barometer to the sea-level.
2. A level or flat surface of the sea.
1873M. Collins Miranda I. 168 She sat and worked, and looked across the vast sea-levels. |