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Meanings of sea-level in English

Lying below the normal level.

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        1
        Other data such as sea-level pressure and wind indexes are also used.
        Reuters
        2
        Congress should have decided in favor of a sea-level canal at Panama.
        Practical Argumentation
        3
        Two plans have been suggested: the lock-canal plan and the sea-level plan.
        Practical Argumentation
        4
        The summit of the pass is about seven thousand feet above sea-level.
        A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
        5
        Mertz boiled the hypsometer when necessary to ascertain our elevation above sea-level.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
        6
        The air pressure gauge was spinning up toward normal sea-level air pressure.
        Space Tug
        7
        There was nothing between me and the sea-level except the mule's ears.
        A Truthful Woman in Southern California
        8
        But then subsidence might have brought down higher rocks to present sea-level.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
        9
        Just after one o'clock I was twenty-one thousand feet above the sea-level.
        Tales of Terror and Mystery
        10
        The hunt is now on to find what caused sea-level to drop.
        The South African
        11
        Perhaps most worrying of all is the data on sea-level rise.
        Radio NZ
        12
        Large areas remained above the sea-level in Austria, Germany, and France.
        The Story of Evolution
        13
        On either side of the mole irregular rocks stood up above the sea-level.
        Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
        14
        Or, perhaps a global event like climatic shifts caused sea-level fall.
        The South African
        15
        A flat ice-foot nearly three feet above sea-level looked like a natural quay.
        South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
        16
        I hope this state of things will last at the sea-level.
        Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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