What does sea level mean?
Definitions for sea level
sea lev·el
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Princeton's WordNet
sea leveladjective
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
low-lying, sea-leveladjective
lying below the normal level
"a low-lying desert"
Wiktionary
sea levelnoun
The nominal height of the surface of the oceans above which heights of geographical features and aircraft flight levels are measured.
Webster Dictionary
Sea level
the level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea
Wikidata
Sea level
Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation. MSL also plays an important role in aviation, where standard sea level pressure is used as the measurement datum of altitude at flight levels.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sea level in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sea level in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of sea level in a Sentence
We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth, that’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.
The melting of ice sheets after Snowball Earth caused a dramatic rise in sea level, ultimately flooding the continents, driving a remarkable retreat of shorelines and the development of clearer ocean water, researchers have long been aware that the timing of Snowball Earth and the development of more complex life seem to have coincided, but no one has really thought about how the oceans being starved of sediment might have helped ancient organisms thrive in the oceans.
Our research shows that sea-level rise can significantly increase the tsunami hazard, which means that smaller tsunamis in the future can have the same adverse impacts as big tsunamis would today.
Greenland has been an increasing contributor to global sea level rise over the past two decades.
I think a common message between our studies is that we need to have flexible adaptation measures in place to deal with a wide range of possible sea level outcomes.
Translations for sea level
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- MeeresspiegelGerman
- marniveloEsperanto
- nivel del marSpanish
- merenpinnan taso, merenpintaFinnish
- niveau de la merFrench
- àirde-maraScottish Gaelic
- ծովի մակարդակArmenian
- livello del mareItalian
- 海水面, 海面Japanese
- 해발Korean
- zeeniveau, zeespiegelDutch
- poziom morzaPolish
- nível do marPortuguese
- уровень моряRussian
- havsnivåSwedish
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