Level or levels may refer to:
Engineering
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Level (instrument)
A level is an optical instrument used to establish or verify points in the same horizontal plane in a process known as levelling, and is used in conjunction with a levelling staff to establish the relative height levels of objects or marks. It is ...
, a device used to measure true horizontal or relative heights
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Spirit level
A spirit level, bubble level, or simply a level, is an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal (level) or vertical ( plumb). Different types of spirit levels may be used by carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, ...
, an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal or vertical
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Canal pound
A canal pound (from impound), reach, or level (American usage), is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Canal pounds can vary in length from the non-existent, where two or more immediately adjacent locks form a lock stair ...
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Regrading
Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and g ...
or levelling, the process of raising and/or lowering the levels of land
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Storey
A storey (British English) or story (American English) is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are ''storeys'' (UK) and ''stories'' (US).
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or level, a vertical unit of a building or a mine
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Level (coordinate)
Vertical position or vertical location, also known as vertical level or simply level, is a position along a vertical direction above or below a given vertical datum (reference level).
Vertical distance or vertical separation is the distance betwe ...
, vertical position
Gaming
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Level (video games)
In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, stage, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective. Video game levels generally have progressively-increasing difficulty t ...
, a stage of the game
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Level (role-playing games)
An experience point (often abbreviated as exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in some tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's life experience and progression through the game. Experien ...
, a measurement of character development
Music
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Level (music)
A level, van der Merwe, Peter (1989). ''Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. . also "tonality level", Gerhard Kubik's "tonal step," "tonal block," and John Blacking's "root p ...
, similar to but more general and basic than a chord
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''Levels'' (album), an album by AKA
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"Levels" (Avicii song)
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"Levels" (Bilal song)
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"Levels" (Nick Jonas song)
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"Levels" (Meek Mill song)
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"Level" (The Raconteurs song)
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"Levels" (NorthSideBenji song), featuring Houdini
Places
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Level Mountain
Level Mountain is a large volcanic complex in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is located north-northwest of Telegraph Creek and west of Dease Lake on the Nahlin Plateau. With a maximum elevation of , it is the second-h ...
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Levél
Levél (german: Kaltenstein) is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.
Geography
Levél is in the north-west of Hungary, close to the M1 motorway between Mosonmagyaróvár and Hegyeshalom. It is on the international bicycle road ...
, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
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Levels, New Zealand
Levels is a small rural community in the Timaru District, New Zealand. It is located east of Pleasant Point and north-west of Timaru. Richard Pearse Airport is located within Levels. Also the Timaru International Motor Raceway is located in th ...
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Level, Ohio
Level is an unincorporated community in southern Harlan Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States, which in the 19th century was a station on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad and had its own post office, since closed. According to the U.S ...
, United States
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Level Valley
Level Valley () is a distinctive ice-free valley which descends northeastward from the Pivot Peak cirque, in the Wilkniss Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name does not refer to the local topography, but is one of a group of names i ...
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Levels, West Virginia
Levels is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. According to the 2000 census, the Levels community has a population of 147. It is home to John J. Cornwell Elementary School.
The community was so nam ...
Science and mathematics
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quantity
Quantity or amount is a property that can exist as a Counting, multitude or Magnitude (mathematics), magnitude, which illustrate discontinuity (mathematics), discontinuity and continuum (theory), continuity. Quantities can be compared in terms o ...
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Level (algebra) In field theory, a branch of mathematics, the Stufe (/ ʃtuːfə/; German: level) ''s''(''F'') of a field ''F'' is the least number of squares that sum to −1. If −1 cannot be written as a sum of squares, ''s''(''F'') = \infty. In this case, '' ...
, the lowest number of squares that sum to
in a field
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Level (logarithmic quantity)
In science and engineering, a power level and a field level (also called a root-power level) are logarithmic measures of certain quantities referenced to a standard reference value of the same type.
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, a logarithmic measure defined as the logarithm of a ratio of two like quantities
*Level, the different values that a
categorical variable can have
*Level, the different values that a factor can have in
factor analysis
Factor analysis is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved variables called factors. For example, it is possible that variations in six observed ...
*Level, the different treatments that are applied within a factor in the
design of experiments
The design of experiments (DOE, DOX, or experimental design) is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. The term is generally associ ...
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Level (airline)
Fly LEVEL SL, trading as Level, is an airline brand under which airlines owned by the International Airlines Group (IAG) operate low-cost flights. The brand has a registered office in Madrid, Spain.
Level was marketed initially as a low-cost, ...
, a pan-European airline brand
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Level or levels may refer to:
Engineering
*Level (instrument), a device used to measure true horizontal or relative heights
*Spirit level, an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal or vertical
*Canal pound or level
*Regr ...
'', a games magazine in the Czech Republic, Romania, and Turkey
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The Level, Brighton
The Level is an urban park in central Brighton, on the south coast of England. The park is a triangle of bounded by Union Road to the north, Richmond Terrace (A270) to the east, and Ditchling Road ( A23) to the west. In the past, the land has ...
, a park in Brighton, UK
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Level Vodka, a brand of vodka
*Level, a collection of objects with the same rank in an
overlapping hierarchy
A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...
*Level, a layer of defense in
two-level defense In American football, a two-level defense is a defensive formation with only two layers of defense instead of the customary three layers.
Overview
In a standard three-level defense, there are three layers: the forcing unit (consisting mainly of l ...
in American football
*Level, an
indication of the number of previous posts to a forum thread
*LEVEL, a website for men of color published by
Medium
Medium may refer to:
Science and technology
Aviation
*Medium bomber, a class of war plane
*Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design
Communication
* Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
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The Level (TV series)
''The Level'' is a British crime drama, which began broadcasting on ITV on 30 September 2016. The six-part series focuses on DS Nancy Devlin (Karla Crome), a detective with the National Crime Division, who is assigned to Brighton CID to investi ...
People with the surname
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Annick Level (born 1942), French fencer
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Calvin Levels (born 1954), American film actor
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Dwayne Levels
Ernest Dwayne Levels (born May 9, 1979) is a former American football linebacker who spent three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cincinnati Bengals. He also spent one season in the Canadian Football League (CFL), but did not ...
(born 1979), American football player
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Janou Levels
Janou Levels (born 30 October 2000) is a Dutch footballer, who plays for PSV (women), PSV and the Netherlands women's national football team, national team. She previously played for .
Club career
Levels started playing football at the age of ...
(born 2000), Dutch footballer
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Léon Level (1910–1949), French professional road bicycle racer
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Maurice Level
Maurice Level (29 August 1875 – 15 April 1926) was a French writer of fiction and drama who specialized in short stories of the macabre which were printed regularly in the columns of Paris newspapers and sometimes staged by '' le Théâtre du G ...
(1875–1926), French writer
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Tobias Levels (born 1986), German-Dutch footballer
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A-Scale Sound Level
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Biological organisation
Biological organisation is the hierarchy of complex biological structures and systems that define life using a reductionistic approach. The traditional hierarchy, as detailed below, extends from atoms to biospheres. The higher levels of this s ...
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Derived no-effect level
The derived no-effect level (DNEL) is the level of exposure to a substance above which humans should not be exposed. The REACH regulation defines them as exposure levels beneath which a substance does not harm human health. According to the EU REA ...
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Energy level
A quantum mechanical system or particle that is bound—that is, confined spatially—can only take on certain discrete values of energy, called energy levels. This contrasts with classical particles, which can have any amount of energy. The te ...
s, discrete amounts of energy that can be held by a quantum mechanical system or confined particle
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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
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GCE Ordinary Level
The O-Level (Ordinary Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education. It was introduced in place of the School Certificate in 1951 as part of an educational reform alongside the more in-depth ...
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Gal Level, an R&B girl duo from Windhoek, Namibia
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ILR scale, descriptions of abilities to communicate in a language
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Level crossing
A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, overpass ...
, a place where track and road meet at the same level
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Level 3 (disambiguation)
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Level 42
Level 42 is an English jazz-funk band formed on the Isle of Wight in 1979. They had a number of UK and worldwide hits during the 1980s and 1990s.
Their highest-charting single in the UK was " Lessons in Love", which reached number three on th ...
, an English pop rock and jazz-funk band
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Level measurement
Level sensors detect the level of liquids and other fluids and fluidized solids, including slurries, granular materials, and powders that exhibit an upper free surface. Substances that flow become essentially horizontal in their containers (or ...
, instrumentation techniques to measure height within a vessel
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Level of measurement
Level of measurement or scale of measure is a classification that describes the nature of information within the values assigned to variables. Psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens developed the best-known classification with four levels, or scal ...
, a theory of the kinds of scales or levels used for measuring
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Level playing field
In commerce, a level playing field is a concept about fairness, not that each player has an equal chance to succeed, but that they all play by the same set of rules.
In a game played on a playing field, such as rugby, one team would have an unfai ...
, a concept about fairness where all play by the same set of rules
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Level set
In mathematics, a level set of a real-valued function of real variables is a set where the function takes on a given constant value , that is:
: L_c(f) = \left\~,
When the number of independent variables is two, a level set is calle ...
, a set where a function takes on a given constant value
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Leveling (disambiguation)
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Leveling seat
Leveling seats ( da, tillægsmandat, sv, utjämningsmandat, no, utjevningsmandater, is, jöfnunarsæti, german: Ausgleichsmandat), commonly known also as adjustment seats, are an election mechanism employed for many years by all Nordic countrie ...
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Levellers
The Levellers were a political movement active during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. The hallmark of Leveller thought was its populis ...
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Pevensey Levels
Pevensey Levels is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Bexhill-on-Sea and Hailsham in East Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a Ramsar site and a Special Area of Conservation. An area of is a nati ...
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised g ...
, the average height of the ocean's surface, reference of height systems
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Somerset Levels
The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendip Hills, Mendips to the Blackdown Hills.
The Somerset Levels have an area of about and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to ...
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Terror Alert Level
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Water level
Water level, also known as gauge height or stage, is the elevation of the free surface of a sea, stream, lake or reservoir relative to a specified vertical datum.ISO 772: 1996. Hydrometric determinations – Vocabulary and symbols.
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, the average height of a water
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