Definition of "ground level" []

• See ground state. (noun)

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• "As it grew lighter, with first light at 0330 hours, the fields overlooking the plain of Rastatt were the scenes of toil - men and machines digging for their very lives in the dedicated endeavour to get below ground level and hidden from view in a fighting posture, before the enemy put in an appearance."
• "There were few windows and at ground level only entrances cut to peculiar Crigolit design."
• "Others, with their warty, creviced bark erupting into hand-holds of knots and burrs, began branching almost at ground level like irregular stepladders, as if defying anyone not to climb them."