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sea lev·el

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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

  2. low-lying, sea-leveladjective

    lying below the normal level

    "a low-lying desert"

Wiktionary

  1. sea levelnoun

    The nominal height of the surface of the oceans above which heights of geographical features and aircraft flight levels are measured.

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  1. sea level

    Sea level is the average height of the surface of the world's oceans, which is used as a standard reference point to measure geographic features such as the height of mountains or the depth of oceans. It also serves as the baseline for measuring atmospheric pressure and temperature. Sea level can fluctuate based on factors like climate change, tides, and geological activities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sea level

    the level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea level in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea level in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sea level in a Sentence

  1. Simon Kofe:

    The statement juxtaposes the COP26 setting with the real-life situations faced in Tuvalu due to the impacts of climate change and sea level rise and highlights the bold action Tuvalu is taking to address the very pressing issues of human mobility under climate change.

  2. Edwin Griffioen:

    Because the air pressure is so much lower in an aeroplane than at sea level, a traditional beer tap will not work as it will only dispense a huge amount of foam, we do have dispensers that work on air pressure, but these were too big to fit in a plane.

  3. Thomas Mote:

    Greenland has been an increasing contributor to global sea level rise over the past two decades.

  4. Hans Brouwer:

    We realized that we can expect even more water from the rivers, and at the same time it would be difficult to get rid of that water because of sea-level rise.

  5. Philip Levine:

    When you become mayor of a city that’s being attacked by sea level rise, there’s no book to buy, no course to take, no guide to follow, we had to literally write the book ourselves. We have learned as we went along. We, of course, realize that everything we did could have been better and everything we’ve done can certainly be improved.


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