leveling

alternative levelling

1. USgerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of level

plural levelings · alternative levelling

1. countableuncountableThe process of making something level.

   In the meantime, the Castilian of northern and central Spain, while retaining most of the traits of the pre-Columbian period, underwent changes and levelings, some of which were shared by the South and hence by America.

   1981, D. Lincoln Canfield, Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas

2. countableuncountablearchaeologyThe process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
3. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountablehuman sciencesEllipsis of paradigm leveling, the replacement of irregular forms by regular forms.