leveling
English
Alternative forms
- levelling
Verb
leveling
- (US) present participle of level
Noun
leveling (plural levelings)
- The process of making something level.
- 1981, D. Lincoln Canfield, Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas
- In the meantime, the Castilian of northern and central Spain, while retaining most of the traits of the pre-Columbian period, underwent changes and levelings, some of which were shared by the South and hence by America.
- 1981, D. Lincoln Canfield, Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas
- (surveying, archaeology) The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
Derived terms
- leveling staff