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"Read level" refers to a voltage level configured to test, check, read, or sense, which memory cells conduct at the voltage level. In certain embodiments, the memory cells may comprise transistors and the read level, or read voltage, is a voltage level at, or above a threshold voltage for the memory cells which causes the memory cell to conduct a current, to activate.In certain embodiments, depending on the type of encoding used to store data on the memory cell and the number of bits encoded on each memory cell, a single read/sense operation using a single read voltage may be determinative of the memory state of the memory cell. In other embodiments, a number of read/sense operations each performed at different read voltage levels may be used to determine the memory state of the memory cell. The determined memory state may then be decoded into a representation of the data bits stored by the memory cell. "Read voltage" is a shorthand reference to a "read threshold voltage." "Read level" is another term commonly used to describe a "read voltage" and the two terms are used interchangeably herein.