theodolite

See also: théodolite

English

Etymology

From New Latin theodolitus (1571), perhaps containing Ancient Greek θέᾱ (théā, “sight, view”)[1] and Arabic العِضَادَة‎ (al-ʿiḍāda, “astrolabe, alidade”);[2][3] if so, doublet of alidade.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /θiːˈɒdəlaɪt/

Noun

theodolite (plural theodolites)

  1. A surveying instrument, consisting of a small mounted telescope, used to measure horizontal and vertical angles.
    • 1999, Yangquan Chen, Extracting aerobomb's aerodynamic drag coefficient curve from theodolite data via iterative learning 1‎:

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References
  1. “theodolite”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. Olry Terquem, Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, Vol. 20, Paris, 1861, pp. 35/36/37/38
  3. Hexagon Metrology, A Brief History Of Theodolites [article], portable-cmmm.com, Ed° décembre 2006, p. 13
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