SPIRIT LEVEL Definition & Meaning

spirit level

noun

Surveying.

a device for determining true horizontal or vertical directions by the centering of a bubble in a slightly curved glass tube or tubes filled with alcohol or ether.

spirit level

noun

a device for setting horizontal surfaces, consisting of an accurate block of material in which a sealed slightly curved tube partially filled with liquid is set so that the air bubble rests between two marks on the tube when the block is horizontal

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of spirit level¹

First recorded in 1760–70

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He may have lost his pencil, hammer, spirit level and saw every 30 seconds, but he knew what he was doing.

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No wonder he stood on the touchline with lips pursed in such a rigid horizontal line that they could double as a spirit level.

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For Miller, wellness is about “people reconnecting and being comfortable in their mind and spirit level. Before, people were distracting themselves through consumerism.”

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Traversing Alaska’s shattered coastline by barge and bush plane, he employs the field geologist’s tools — hammer, spirit level, compass, notepad and, to “read” the landscape, his eyes.

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The system comprises several small canals in which tiny amounts of fluid act like spirit levels, responding to the body's motion.

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