geodesy
pronunciation
How to pronounce geodesy in British English:
UK [dʒi:'ɒdɪsɪ]
How to pronounce geodesy in American English:
US [dʒi'ɒdəsɪ]
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- Noun:
- the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points
Word Origin
- geodesy (n.)
- 1560s, "the art of land surveying," from Modern Latin geodaesia, from Greek geodaisia "division of the earth;" ultimately from ge "earth" (see Gaia) + stem of daiein "to divide," from PIE *dai-, extended form of root *da- "to divide." In modern use it refers to mathematical calculations derived from measuring large portions of the earth's surface. In this sense, in reference to structures, from 1936.
Example
- 1. Geodesy and race set up two broad categories of engineering survey .
- 2. The applications and progress of satellite altimetry in geodesy .
- 3. The work of this paper may offer some reference and gist for research on astrometry and geodesy .
- 4. Advances of modern geodesy in geodetic datum , satellite gravimetry and their related research domain .
- 5. Some 35 years on , reflectors placed on the lunar surface are still used by scientists interested in geophysics and geodesy ( for example , how the moon 's gravitational field shifts over time ) . Most of the reflectors are clustered close to the lunar equator .