Noun

(en noun)

A tool for finding whether a surface is , or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.

A distance relative to a given reference elevation.

Degree or amount.

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(computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.

(gaming) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered. Often, each level occupies different physical space (levels don't require any direct physical relationship to each other, e.g. vertically stacked, horizontally chained, etc).

(gaming) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.

A floor of a multi-storey building.

(British) an area of almost perfectly flat land.

Noun

(en noun)

A room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room.

* 1845, ,

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

An enclosed space.

the chamber''' of a canal lock; the '''chamber''' of a furnace; the '''chamber of the eye

A ''test chamber'' is typically a closable case where devices under test are placed.

(firearms) The portion of the weapon that holds the ammunition round immediately prior to (and during initiation of) its discharge; each of the cylindrical compartments of a revolver that can hold a bullet

Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.

One of the legislative bodies in a government where multiple such bodies exist, or a single such body in comparison to others.

The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber .

A law office in a building housing several such offices, typically the office of a barrister in the United Kingdom or in the imagination of an African scammer.

(dated, in the plural) Apartments in a lodging house.

* Thackeray

a bachelor's life in chambers

(obsolete) A chamber pot.

(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.