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Geodesy

GE'ODESY

Noun.

[Gr. the earth, and to divide.] That part of geometry which respects the doctrine of measuring surfaces,and finding the contents of all plain figures.

Definition 2024

geodesy

English

Alternative forms

geodæsy (archaic)

Noun

geodesy ‎(usually uncountable, plural geodesies)

(sciences, geography) The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space

Synonyms

land surveying

Related terms

geodetics
geodetic
geodetic surveying

Translations

scientific discipline

Arabic: جِيُودِيسْيَا f ‎(jiyudīsyā)
Armenian: գեոդեզիա (hy) ‎(geodezia), երկրաբաշխություն ‎(erkrabašxutʿyun)
Basque: geodesia
Bulgarian: геодезия f ‎(geodézija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大地測量學 (zh), 大地测量学 (zh) ‎(dàdì cèliángxué), 測地學 (zh), 测地学 (zh) ‎(cèdìxué)
Czech: geodézie f
Danish: geodæsi (da) c
Dutch: landmeetkunde (nl) f
Estonian: geodeesia
Finnish: geodesia (fi), maanmittaus
French: géodésie (fr) f
Galician: xeodesia f
German: Geodäsie (de) f
Greek: γεωδαισία (el) f ‎(geodaisía)
Hungarian: geodézia (hu)
Icelandic: landmæling f, landmælingafræði f

Indonesian: geodesi (id)
Japanese: 測地学 ‎(そくちがく, sokuchigaku)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: geodesi (no) m

Nynorsk: geodesi m
Persian: ژئودزی (fa) ‎(žeodezi)
Polish: geodezja (pl) f
Portuguese: geodésia (pt) f
Russian: геоде́зия (ru) f ‎(geodɛ́zija)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: геодезија f

Roman: geodezija (sh) f
Slovak: geodézia f
Slovene: geodezíja (sl) f
Spanish: geodesia (es) f
Swedish: geodesi (sv) c
Tagalog: dusukatan
Turkish: jeodezi (tr)

External links

geodesy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Webster 1828 Edition

Geodesy

GE'ODESY

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geodesy

geodesy

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