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sea-level

adj. lying below the normal level; "a low-lying desert" [syn: low-lying]

Usage examples of "sea-level".

As soon as it gets daylight tomorrow the National Park Service plans to use a helicopter to patrol the sea-level contour line in a effort to locate Tommy's VW van and his camp, and we can organize our ground search from there.

The headland rose more than sixty feet above the sea-level, and the azure waters of the Mediterranean, as they softly kissed the strand, were tinged with the reddish hue of the ferriferous rocks that formed its base.

We are close to the site of Las Animas, which is surrounded with land rising four thousand feet above sea-level.

Seventeen pounds -- two more than Earth sea-level and nearly twice what we use in the city.

There were the things his mother rambled on about sometimes, about how everything was being ruined and would never be the same again, like the beach house her family had owned when she was little, the one that got washed away with the rest of the beaches and quite a few of the eastern coastal cities when the sea-level rose so quickly, and then there was that huge tidal wave, from the Canary Islands volcano.