geodesy

/jee-od-uh-see/US // dʒiˈɒd ə si //UK // (dʒɪˈɒdɪsɪ) //

大地测量学,大地测量法,大地测量,测绘

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n.名词 noun

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- : the branch of applied mathematics that deals with the measurement of the shape and area of large tracts of country, the exact position of geographical points, and the curvature, shape, and dimensions of the earth.

So we shall put the question otherwise; can geodesy aid us the better to know nature?
And to-day, a century and a half after the victory of the Newtonians, think you geodesy has nothing more to teach us?
Geodesy can therefore weigh them from afar, so to speak, and tell us of their distribution.
We reach what may be called the second heroic period of geodesy.
The theodolites used in geodesy vary in pattern and in size—the horizontal circles ranging from 10 in.