HyperDic: surveyor[s_level

English > 1 sense of the expression surveyor's level:
NOUNartifactsurveyor's levelsurveying instrument consisting basically of a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis
English > surveyor's level: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
Meaningsurveying instrument consisting basically of a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis; for measuring relative heights of land.
Partslevel, spirit levelindicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid / liquid
NarrowerAbney levelA surveying instrument consisting of a spirit level and a sighting tube
Dumpy levelA surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a horizontally rotating table and a spirit level
Broadersurveying instrument, surveyor's instrumentAn instrument used by surveyors

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