| position | the act of positing, an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom |
terrain flight
low level flight | flight at very low altitudes |
position post
berth
office spot billet
place
situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
stead
position place lieu | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another, can you go in my stead?, took his place, in lieu of |
| position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player, what position does he play? |
blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging
BOLD FMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation |
placement
location locating
position
positioning
emplacement | the act of putting something in a certain place |
| Abney level | a surveying instrument consisting of a spirit level and a sighting tube, used to measure the angle of inclination of a line from the observer to the target |
| carpenter's level | a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it |
| Dumpy level | a surveyor's level having a short telescope fixed to a horizontally rotating table and a spirit level |
floor level storey
story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
ground floor
first floor
ground level | the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building |
horizontal surface
level | a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line, park the car on the level |
level
spirit level | indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid |
level crossing
grade crossing | intersection of a railway and a road on the same level, barriers close road when trains pass |
| mason's level | a level longer than a carpenter's level |
| plumb level | a carpenter's level with a plumb line at right angles to it |
| surveyor's level | surveying instrument consisting basically of a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis, for measuring relative heights of land |
| water level | a water gauge that shows the level by showing the surface of the water in a trough or U-shaped tube |
luminosity
brightness brightness level
luminance
luminousness
light | the quality of being luminous, emitting or reflecting light, its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun |
position
spatial relation | the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated, the position of the hands on the clock, he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage |
position posture
attitude | the arrangement of the body and its limbs, he assumed an attitude of surrender |
| ballet position | classical position of the body and especially the feet in ballet |
| lithotomy position | a position lying on your back with knees bent and thighs apart, assumed for vaginal or rectal examination |
| lotus position | a sitting position with the legs crossed, used in yoga |
| missionary position | a position for sexual intercourse, a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top, soalled because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples |
degree
grade
level | a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality, a moderate grade of intelligence, a high level of care is required, it is all a matter of degree |
| amplitude level | the level on a scale of amplitude |
| signal level | the amplitude level of the desired signal |
noise level
background level | the amplitude level of the undesired background noise |
| intensity strength intensity level | the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation), he adjusted the intensity of the sound, they measured the station's signal strength |
| threshold level | the intensity level that is just barely perceptible |
acoustic power
sound pressure level | the physical intensity of sound |
utmost
uttermost
maximum
level best | the greatest possible degree, he tried his utmost |
| level | height above ground, the water reached ankle level, the pictures were at the same level |
| grade ground level | the height of the ground on which something stands, the base of the tower was below grade |
| water level | the level of the surface of a body of water |
| sea level | level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide), used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth |
superiority favorable position
favourable position | the quality of being at a competitive advantage |
| inferiority unfavorable position | the quality of being a competitive disadvantage |
position stance
posture | a rationalized mental attitude |
position
view perspective | a way of regarding situations or topics etc., consider what follows from the positivist view |
level
layer
stratum | an abstract place usually conceived as having depth, a good actor communicates on several levels, a simile has at least two layers of meaning, the mind functions on many strata simultaneously |
| place position | an item on a list or in a sequence, in the second place, moved from third to fifth position |
cleanup
cleanup position
cleanup spot | (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) |
aide-memoire
position paper | a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement (used especially in diplomatic communications) |
| high-level formatting | (computer science) the format for the root directory and the file allocation tables and other basic configurations |
low-level formatting
initialization
initialisation | (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position |
price index
price level | an index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time |
side
position | an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute, there are two sides to every question |