ˈmultilevel, a.
Also multi-level.
[multi- 3.]
Having, involving, or operating on several levels (in any sense). Also ellipt. as n., a multilevel set of apartments.
| 1952 Los Angeles Examiner 19 Mar. iii. 1 (caption) Multi-level apartment hotel is planned as the center for the development. 1959 G. Troup Masers iv. 50 One multilevel excitation method is that known as ‘optical pumping’. 1959 Sunday Times 12 Apr. 21/6 America welcomed the one-storey ‘ranch’ house and the ‘split level’. Today, the development builders, who can find new names for old things, are trumpeting the ‘multi level’. 1960 Guardian 17 Mar. 9/5 Multi-level traffic to separate vehicles from pedestrians. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. viii. 208 The new marketplaces at Coventry and Harlow, with their upper tiers of shops and offices, are..only a recovery of the admirable Roman multi-level plan. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. v. 80 When such vertical divisions are multilevel, that is to say, when the cuts extend through several layers, they mark very important distinctions in the language. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 121/3 Unloading automobiles from multi⁓level cars. 1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 82/3 (Advt.), Unusual multi-levels. Charming bedroom apts. 1973 Times 5 Oct. (Safety Suppl.) p. ii, Junctions are multilevel and local roads..are carried over or under their dual carriageways. |
So multi-ˈlevelled a. [multi- 1 b].
| 1948 Hudson Rev. I. i. 117 But precisely because it is a poem—compact, symbolic, multileveled, all details woven elaborately into the meaning pattern—it cannot be totally accounted for as yet. 1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 103 When only the eye is engaged, the multi-levelled gestures and resonances of Senecan oral action are quite impertinent. 1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. iv. 58 A multileveled theory such as is necessary for describing a natural language. 1968 A. Lomax Folk Song Style & Culture iv. 95 The overall impact of the African style is multileveled, multiparted, highly integrated, multi-textured, gregarious, and playful-voiced. |