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A tool employing a chamber with a colored liquid (usually alcohol, hence spirit) and an air bubble, used to determine a horizontal or vertical reference line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: tool
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: level
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: indicator
Narrower terms: mason's level
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
waterpas
— spirit level
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Arabic:
مِيزَانُ مَاء
(mīzānu māʔ)
— spirit level
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Catalan:
nivell de bombolla
— spirit level
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Chinese Mandarin:
水平器
(shuǐpíngqì)
— spirit level
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Chinese Mandarin:
水平管
(shuǐpíngguǎn)
— spirit level
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Czech:
vodováha
— spirit level
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Danish:
vaterpas
— spirit level
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Dutch:
waterpas
— spirit level
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Esperanto:
nivelilo
— spirit level
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Finnish:
vatupassi
— spirit level
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Finnish:
vesivaaka
— spirit level
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French:
niveau à bulle
— spirit level
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German:
Wasserwaage
— spirit level
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Greek:
αλφάδι
(alfádi)
— spirit level
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Greenlandic:
vaataparsi
— spirit level
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Hungarian:
vízmérték
— spirit level
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Indonesian:
waterpas
— spirit level
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Indonesian:
penyipat datar
— spirit level
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Irish:
leibhéal biotáille
— spirit level
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Italian:
livella
— spirit level
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Japanese:
水準器
(suijunki)
— spirit level
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Kashubian:
waserwôga
— spirit level
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Kashubian:
niwelnica
— spirit level
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Khmer:
ខ្នាតទឹក
(knaat tɨk)
— spirit level
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Korean:
수준기
(sujun'gi)
— spirit level
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Malay:
timbang air
— spirit level
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Norman:
nivé
— spirit level
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Polish:
libella
— spirit level
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Polish:
poziomica
— spirit level
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Portuguese:
nível de bolha
— spirit level
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Romanian:
nivelă cu bulă de aer
— spirit level
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Romanian:
nivelă
— spirit level
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Romanian:
nivel
— spirit level
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Romanian:
cumpănă
— spirit level
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Romanian:
poloboc
— spirit level
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Russian:
у́ровень
(úrovenʹ)
— spirit level
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Russian:
пузырько́вый у́ровень
(puzyrʹkóvyj úrovenʹ)
— spirit level
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Russian:
спиртово́й у́ровень
(spirtovój úrovenʹ)
— spirit level
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Scanian:
vaterpass
— spirit level
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Serbo-Croatian:
либела
— spirit level
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Serbo-Croatian:
ливел
— spirit level
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Serbo-Croatian:
васервага
— spirit level
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Serbo-Croatian:
libela
— spirit level
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Serbo-Croatian:
razulja
— spirit level
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Serbo-Croatian:
livel
— spirit level
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Serbo-Croatian:
vaservaga
— spirit level
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Spanish:
nivel de burbuja
— spirit level
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Swedish:
vattenpass
— spirit level
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Vietnamese:
máy thuỷ bình
— spirit level
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Welsh:
lefel ysbryd
— spirit level
