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levelage

levelage noun: the act or process of leveling.

Noun

levelage (countable and uncountable, plural levelages)

  1. The act or process of leveling.
    • Since connection was made by levelage with German main shaft, a large body of ore has been opened which is being backstoped.^([sic])1881, The Mining Record - Volume 16, page 280
    • The entire group can be worked by a system of levelage and cross-cuts from the workings of the main shaft on the Columbia Avenue.1884, United States. Bureau of the Mint, Report of the Director of the Mint Upon the Production of the Precious Metals in the United States during the Calendar Year 1883, page 306
  2. The measured level of something.
    • The surface of Lake Erie has generally been considered as five hundred and sixty-four feet above tide-water at Albany; see the Report of Michigan, 1839-40. The topographer of that State, S.W. Higgins, Esq., puts it at 565, 333 feet. If this last number represents the levelage of the Erie Canal, it...1852, Charles Whittlesey, Fugitive essays, upon interesting and useful subjects, page 91
    • The little instrument and methods which I shall describe can be applied in any of our American laboratories, either in the recumbent posture, which I believe is the most popular, or it can be used in the vertical position, because the instrument will give an accurate levelage of the skull in any...1917, Preston Manasseh Hickey, James Thomas Case, Harry Miles Imboden, The American Journal of Roentgenology, Radium Therapy and Nuclear Medicine, Volume 4

Examples of levelage in a sentence

  • The most advanced socialist could not have desired a more perfect system of levelage.1897, Julien Gordon, Eat Not Thy Heart, page 16:
  • If this last number represents the levelage of the Erie Canal, it is probably good for the surface of the Lake, as it was when the surveys were made for that work, twenty-five years since.1852, Charles Whittlesey, Fugitive essays, upon interesting and useful subjects, page 91:
  • We are really not very comfortable with the levelage on the system this bill will imply, but we think that will be helpful and would like to give it some more thought.1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture:

Forms of levelage

plurallevelages

Origin of levelage

From level + -age.

Questions about levelage

What does levelage mean?
Levelage means the act or process of leveling.
How do you use levelage in a sentence?
The most advanced socialist could not have desired a more perfect system of levelage.
What part of speech is levelage?
Levelage is a noun.
What is the plural of levelage?
The plural of levelage is levelages.

Words near levelage in the dictionary

  1. level-headed
  2. level-headedly
  3. level-headedness
  4. level-triggered
  5. levelable
  6. levelage
  7. levelages
  8. leveled
  9. leveled down
  10. leveled off
  11. leveled out

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