leveling

• levelling

leveling

1. (US) present participle and gerund of level

leveling (countable and uncountable, plural levelings)

1. The process of making something level.
   • 1981, D. Lincoln Canfield, Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas:

     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.

2. (surveying, archaeology) The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
3. (linguistics) Ellipsis of paradigm leveling, the replacement of irregular forms by regular forms.