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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In work with astronomical and geodetic instruments, the small error in a quantitative observation made with a transit instrument due to the fact that the horizontal axis is not truly level.
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The mean annual value of the level-error appears to be now sensibly zero. ”
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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