What does sea-level mean?

Definitions for sea-level
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"

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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. Jeremy Porter:

    It's going to have to continually be updated as the environment changes in the future, the infrastructure that's in place today isn't going to protect New Orleans in five, 10, 15 years. That's only going to get worse as sea level rises, as storms not only become more frequent but become stronger.

  2. Benjamin Strauss:

    We now understand that the threat from sea-level rise and coastal flooding is far greater than we previously thought, it's also true that the benefits from cutting climate pollution are far greater than we previously thought – this changes the whole benefit-cost equation.

  3. David Holland:

    Global sea-level rise is both undeniable and consequential, by capturing how it unfolds, we can see, first-hand, its breathtaking significance.

  4. Bronson Mack:

    When the lake hit 1060( feet above sea level), that's when you could start to see the top of the intake number one.

  5. Liz Thomas:

    There is an urgent need to understand the contribution of Antarctic ice to sea-level rise, and we use a number of techniques to determine the balance between snowfall and ice loss, when ice loss is not replenished by snowfall, then sea level rises.

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