LEVELING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leveling mean? 

• LEVELING (noun)
  The noun LEVELING has 3 senses:

1. changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface

2. complete destruction of a building

3. the act of making equal or uniform

  Familiarity information: LEVELING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVELING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grading; leveling

Hypernyms ("leveling" is a kind of...):

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Complete destruction of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

demolishing; leveling; razing; tearing down

Hypernyms ("leveling" is a kind of...):

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of making equal or uniform

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

equalisation; equalization; leveling

Hypernyms ("leveling" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leveling"):

balancing; reconciliation (getting two things to correspond)

equating; equation (the act of regarding as equal)

 Context examples 

Glycidol is used as a stabilizer for natural oils and vinyl polymers, as an alkylating agent, a sterilant, a demulsifier, a dye-leveling agent and it is also used as an intermediate in the synthesis of glycerol, glycidyl ethers and amines.

(Glycidol, NCI Thesaurus)