leveling
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1. leveling - Noun
2. leveling - Verb
Meaning
of Level
The act or operation of making level.
The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad.
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After switching defense teams last year, Flynn began leveling a series of increasingly strident attacks at the prosecution, culminating in a motion in January to withdraw his guilty plea altogether.
Additionally, it doesn't describe the "leveling off" of the I–V curve at high forward bias due to internal resistance.
A history (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard 1992; Oxford: Blackwell 1995) at 148–152; 151 and 149 map (leveling operations on the Byrsa, circa 25 BC, to prepare for new construction), 426 (Temple of Eshmun), 443 (Byrsa diagram, circa 1859).
All this, in combination with the leveling off of the number of new infections, is a reassuring signal, and will be all the more so when we manage to maintain this situation."
A rounded teaspoon is a larger but less precise measure, produced without leveling the ingredient off or heaping it as high as possible.
At the fortified village of Jalabina, a garrison of Syrian reservists, leveling their anti-aircraft guns, held off the Israeli 65th Paratroop Battalion for four hours before a small detachment managed to penetrate the village and knock out the heavy guns.