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bubble level
noun
A tool employing a chamber with a colored liquid and an air bubble, used to determine if a surface is level horizontally, vertically, or at a 45-degree angle.
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The elegant package includes a screwdriver and the Nest itself has a built-in bubble level.
The spirit, or bubble, level, a sealed glass tube containing alcohol and an air bubble, was invented in 1661.
A digital plumb bob tells you if your walls are straight, while a bubble level helps keep things straight.
As he spoke, he held a mahogany bubble level that Stanley gave him 10 years ago for helping it defeat a hostile takeover by Newell Rubbermaid.
The carpenter turned his back on our tilting walls and took his vertical from a plumb line and his horizontal from a bubble level, and then went to work by the light of these absolutes.
Kapro Tools, working with an Israeli company called Systematic Inventive Thinking, used the method to create a new type of bubble level calibrated to help build gentle slopes to improve drainage.
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With the IntelliLaser, the user must manually level the device with three built-in bubble levels.
A result is that consumer spending won't recover to bubble levels.
The increase in supply, in turn, should prevent prices from escalating to bubble levels.
To be sure, housing activity has not returned to the bubble levels seen before the financial crisis, and the recovery is proceeding unevenly across the country.
Your blogger is a firm believer in the Shiller p/e and the Q ratio, both of which show the market to be pretty overvalued (if not at dotcom bubble levels).
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