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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. Source: Internet

Additionally, it doesn't describe the "leveling off" of the I–V curve at high forward bias due to internal resistance. Source: Internet

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). Source: Internet

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." Source: Internet

A rounded teaspoon is a larger but less precise measure, produced without leveling the ingredient off or heaping it as high as possible. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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