level line

American  

noun

1. contour line.

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Etymology

Origin of level line

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

Thomas said all seats have an indicator: It might be a level line or a level bubble on the carrier itself or on the carrier base.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2022

Place the top tile edge on the level line and press the tile into place, peeling off the remaining backing as you go.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2022

The landscape was broad, dark and silent, the woods and fields confusedly blended together, and only the sepulchres of the ancient gods broke the level line of the horizon.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

For she, as yet, was remote, far down the level line of that choir, hardly perhaps one with it yet, faint of voice, dim of outline.

From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe

There is the railway!—do you see, yonder, its straight level line?

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan