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Level may refer to:
Places
- Levél, a village in Hungary
- Level, Ohio, a former community in the United States
- Somerset Levels The Somerset Levels is a sparsely populated coastal plain and wetland area of central Somerset, England, between the Quantock and Mendip hills, a wetland area of central Somerset, England
Engineering-related
- A floor A storey or story (American English) is any level part of a building that has a permanent roof and could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). The plurals are storeys and stories, respectively of a building or a mine
- A device used to measure true horizontal or relative heights, frequently used in surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish land maps and boundaries for ownership or governmental purposes and construction In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is managed by the project manager and supervised by the construction manager, design engineer,:
- Reed level
- Spirit level A spirit level or bubble level is an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is level or plumb. Different types of spirit levels are used by carpenters, stone masons, bricklayers, other building trades workers, surveyors, millwrights and other metalworkers, and serious videographers or bubble level
- Dumpy level A dumpy level, builder's auto level, leveling instrument or automatic level is an optical instrument used in surveying and building to transfer, measure, or set horizontal levels
- Laser line level A laser line level is a tool combining a spirit level and/or plumb bob with a laser to display an accurately horizontal or vertical illuminated line on a surface the laser line level is laid against. Laser line levels are used wherever accurate verticals and horizontals are required, typically in the construction and cabinetry industries. Some
- Levelling or regrading, in civil engineering, the raising and lowering of levels of land
- Level measurement, instrumentation techniques used to determine the height of a liquid or solid in a container
Science and mathematics
- Sound pressure level Sound pressure or acoustic pressure is the local pressure deviation from the ambient atmospheric pressure caused by a sound wave. Sound pressure can be measured using a microphone in air and a hydrophone in water. The SI unit for sound pressure p is the pascal (symbol: Pa), a measure related to decibels
- Level In general usage, design of experiments or experimental design is the design of any information-gathering exercises where variation is present, whether under the full control of the experimenter or not. However, in statistics, these terms are usually used for controlled experiments. Other types of study, and their design, are discussed in the, in applied statistics, the different treatments that are applied within a factor
- Levels of biological organisation Biological organisation, or the hierarchy of life, is the hierarchy of complex biological structures and systems that define life using a reductionistic approach. The traditional hierarchy, as detailed below, extends from atoms to biospheres. The higher levels of this scheme are often referred to as ecological organisation
Linguistics and languages
- Morphological leveling, a diachronic process of morphological simplification in linguistics
- Levels of Knowing and Existence, a book on general semantics by Harry L. Weinberg
- ILR scale The Interagency Language Roundtable scale is a set of descriptions of abilities to communicate in a language. It was originally developed by the Interagency Language Roundtable, which included representation by United States Foreign Service Institute, the predecessor of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC). It consists of, also known as foreign service levels
Politics
- Levellers The Levellers were members of a political movement, known to history by the same name, during the English Civil Wars which emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance, all of which were expressed in the manifesto "Agreement of the People". They were one of the largest factions on, a group that wished to bring all people to the same social status and wealth
- Leveling seat Leveling seats are a mechanism employed in Norwegian elections to the national legislature, the Storting, and in Swedish elections to national and regional assemblies, to ensure proportional representation both by county and political party. They are more commonly known as "adjustment seats", and can be found in other countries as well, an assembly seat assigned to a party in a process aiming at achieving a more proportional distribution of seats
Entertainment
- Levels (album), an album by British experimental music band Duologue
- Level (video gaming), a stage of the game
- Level up, in role-playing games
- "Level" (The Raconteurs song), the fourth single from The their debut album Broken Boy Soldiers
- "Leveled", a song by Avail from their 2000 album One Wrench
Other uses
- Level (music), similar to but more general and basic than a chord
- LeveL, a games magazine in the Czech Republic, Romania and Turkey
- Level Vodka, a luxury vodka produced by Monarch
- Level A hierarchy (Greek: hierarchia , from hierarches, "leader of sacred rites") is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another and with only one "neighbor" above and below each of, in a hierarchy, a collection of objects with the same rank
- Level When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles, an indication of the number of previous replies to a forum thread at which a portion of text was written
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