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Home Dictionary Name: sea levelSea level
The level of the surface of the sea any surface on the same level with the sea...
Siphon
A device consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level as from one vessel to another over an intermediate elevation by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch when once filled causes a continuous flow The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure that is about 33 feet for water and 30 inches for mercury near the sea level...
Intermediate level
Intermediate level, 'intermediate level' means a level between the village and district levels specified by the Governor of a State by public notification to be the intermediate level of the purposes of this Part. [Constitution of India, Article 243(c)]...
Hypsometry
That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights either absolutely with reference to the sea level or relatively...
Isobar
A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time or for a certain period mean height as for a year an isopiestic line...
low lying
having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level as low lying clouds...
Orometer
An aneroid barometer having a second scale that gives the approximate elevation above sea level of the place where the observation is made...
Dumpy level
A level having a short telescope hence its name rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane The telescope is usually an inverting one It is sometimes called the Troughton level from the name of the inventor and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level...
Bedford level
Bedford level, a tract of fenny land in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northampton, and Lincoln, drained by the Earl of Bedford in 1649. By the (English) Bedford Level Act (15 Car. 2, c. 17), all conveyances, except leases for seven years, are required to be registered. The practice is to register the instrument at length. The registry does not include wills; but conveyances omitted to be registered are valid for all purposes, except for entitling the grantees to the privileges conferred by the act on the owners of lands within the Level. See also (English) Local Acts and 4 Geo. 4, c. 46....
Four seas
Four seas. These are (1) The Atlantic, which comprises the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel; (2) The North Sea; (3) The German Ocean; and (4) The English Channel. See Woolrych on Waters. Before the reign of James the First, the four seas were understood with more restriction, the Scotch seas being excluded. The expression 'within the four seas,' 'intra quatuor maria,' means 'within the kingdome of England, and the dominions of the same kingdome.'-Co. Litt. 107 a....
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