surveyor's level
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1. surveying instrument consisting basically of a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis; for measuring relative heights of land (noun.artifact)
| hyponym | : | abney level, |
| definition | : | a surveying instrument consisting of a spirit level and a sighting tube; used to measure the angle of inclination of a line from the observer to the target (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | dumpy level, |
| definition | : | a surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a horizontally rotating table and a spirit level (noun.artifact) |
| part holonym | : | level, spirit level, |
| definition | : | indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid (noun.artifact) |
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