Word Meanings - COMPLANATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flattened to a level surface.

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• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• LEVELISM
  The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.
• LEVELLY
  In an even or level manner.
• SURFACE
  A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. (more info) 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
• LEVELNESS
  The state or quality of being level.
• SURFACER
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• LEVELING
  The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• WATER LEVEL
  1. The level formed by the surface of still water. 2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.
• DOUBLE-SURFACED
  Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• AIR LEVEL
  Spirit level. See Level.
• ADVANCING SURFACE
  The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.
• SINGLE-SURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
• Y LEVEL
  See N