mislevels

Verb

mislevel (third-person singular simple present mislevels, present participle (US) misleveling or (UK) mislevelling, simple past and past participle (US) misleveled or (UK) mislevelled)

1. To fail to move to the exact level of the intended floor.
   • Without Moynihan's opinion that the misleveling was caused by negligence, an inference that this elevator did not mislevel or experience other problems absent someone's negligence may be unjustified.1950, Maryland Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 255
2. To introduce an angle on something so that is supposed to be perfectly flat.
   • For instance , if γ₁ = γ₂ = 40° and a theodolite with a spirit level of a sensitivity of 30 " is misleveled by one division only ( i.e. ε_L = 30"), then the error of the measured angled ε_β = 36".1981, Raymond Earl Davis, Francis S. Foote, James Anderson, Surveying Theory and Practice, page 842
3. To misdirect.
   • The wisest oft miscarry in their projects; these men err in their very first attempts, their very intentions are misleveled, in that they think there is no direct way to grace but by declining helps of art or gifts of nature.1673, Thomas Jackson, The Works of the Reverend and Larned Divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D., page 1027
4. To assign the wrong level to
   • Concept is good; the weaknesses come in when students are misleveled; when parents intervene; when classes are filled above or below so we can't re-level a student.1978, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation, Case Studies in Science Education, page 1-104

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