A graduated pole with a movable marker, held upright and used with a surveying instrument to measure differences in elevation. Also called leveling pole, leveling staff.
Example sentencesExamples
Look through the level's scope while a helper holds a leveling rod at the benchmark and moves the rod's marker until it falls in the scope's crosshairs.
The leveling rods were calibrated in March 1995 by the U.S. Navy Gage and Standards Laboratory, Pomona.
These leveling rods are built to withstand long hard usage and still retain their straightness.
Then the image of the vertical leveling rod will be seen through the telescope as horizontal.
It is another object of this invention to provide a leveling rod which is relatively inexpensive to manufacture.
This oval 25 foot leveling rod consists of 6 telescoping sections of 5 ply fiberglass with epoxy coated faces.
Rod scale error arises when leveling rods are shorter or longer than indicated by the graduations.
This canvas leveling rod can be coiled up and carried in a pocket.
A leveling rod is graduated upward in feet, from 0 at its base, with appropriate subdivisions in feet.
Spirit leveling measurements are made by sighting graduated leveling rods through a telescope whose axis is precisely horizontal.
Definition of leveling rod in US English:
leveling rod
noun
A graduated pole with a movable marker, held upright and used with a surveying instrument to measure differences in elevation. Also called leveling pole, leveling staff.
Example sentencesExamples
The leveling rods were calibrated in March 1995 by the U.S. Navy Gage and Standards Laboratory, Pomona.
It is another object of this invention to provide a leveling rod which is relatively inexpensive to manufacture.
Look through the level's scope while a helper holds a leveling rod at the benchmark and moves the rod's marker until it falls in the scope's crosshairs.
Spirit leveling measurements are made by sighting graduated leveling rods through a telescope whose axis is precisely horizontal.
Then the image of the vertical leveling rod will be seen through the telescope as horizontal.
These leveling rods are built to withstand long hard usage and still retain their straightness.
This oval 25 foot leveling rod consists of 6 telescoping sections of 5 ply fiberglass with epoxy coated faces.
Rod scale error arises when leveling rods are shorter or longer than indicated by the graduations.
This canvas leveling rod can be coiled up and carried in a pocket.
A leveling rod is graduated upward in feet, from 0 at its base, with appropriate subdivisions in feet.