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• error

  error, ōris, m. [1. erro], a wandering. I In gen., a wandering , straying or strolling about (...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• error

  error ōris, m cf. 1 erro, a wandering, straying, strolling : ad quos Ceres in illo errore venisse ...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Error

  ·noun A wandering; a roving or irregular course. II. Error ·noun The difference between an observed...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Level

  ·adj Straightforward; direct; clear; open. II. Level ·noun A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in...

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• azimuthal error

  See meridian error. ...

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• index-error

  The reading of the verniers of the above-named instruments. It is the correction to be applied to th...

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• meridian error

  The deviation of a transit-instrument from the plane of the meridian at the horizon; it is also term...

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• Air level

  ·- Spirit level. ·see <<Level>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dumpy level

  ·add. ·- A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of ...

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• Sea level

  ·- The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea. ...

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• Water level

  ·- The level formed by the surface of still water. II. Water level ·- A kind of leveling instrument...

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• Y level

  ·- ·see under Y, ·noun. ...

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• level-lines

  Lines determining the shape of a ship's body horizontally, or square from the middle line of the shi...

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• training-level

  A gravitating instrument for the same purpose as the training-pendulum. ...

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• under level

  See bevelling. ...

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• normal level of a barometer

  A term reckoned synonymous with par-line (which see). ...

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