Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
geodetic .
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- adjective Alternative form of
geodesic .
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- adjective of or relating to or determined by geodesy
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Examples
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He went hurtling along the geodesical space lines of the curving universe â ¦. driven by the miracle of a human mind no longer inhibited by concepts of the impossible .... translating 'i' the square root of minus one, from an imaginary number into reality by a magnificent act of imagination.
The Annotated "The Music Never Stopped" John Perry Barlow 1975
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He went hurtling along the geodesical space lines of the curving universe at the speed of thought, far exceeding that of light.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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He went hurtling along the geodesical space lines of the curving universe at the speed of thought, far exceeding that of light.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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He went hurtling along the geodesical space-lines of the curving universe at the speed of thought, which far exceeds that of light.
Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955
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M. Biot quitted me afterwards to return to Paris, whilst I made the geodesical junction of the island of M.jorca to Iviza, and to Formentera, obtaining thus, by means of one single triangle, the measure of an arc of parallel of one degree and a half.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859
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Having examined the salt-works, and terminated our geodesical operations, we departed at the decline of day to sleep at an Indian hut, some miles distant, near the ruins of the castle of Araya.
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The second species of inequality can be recognised only by geodesical or barometric levellings, or by the course of rivers.
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Mercury over the disc of the sun; azimuths; circum-meridian altitudes of the moon, to determine the longitude by the differences of declination; researches on the relative intensity of the light of the austral stars; geodesical measures, etc.
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[6] By the way, when it is considered that one half of a sailor's professional science refers him to the stars, (though it is true the other half refers him to the sails and shrouds of a ship,) just as, in geodesical operations, one part is referred to heaven and one to earth, when this is considered, another argument arises for the superstition of sailors, so far as it is astrological.
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Paris, whilst I made the geodesical junction of the island of Majorca to
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Baden Powell 1819
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