theodolite
Etymology
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Etymology
From nl. theodolitus (1571), perhaps containing Ancient Greek θέᾱ and Arabic عِضَادَة; if so, doublet of alidade.
Pronunciation- IPA: /θiːˈɒdəlaɪt/
theodolite (plural theodolites)
- A surveying instrument, consisting of a small mounted telescope, used to measure horizontal and vertical angles.
- 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC ↗, page 356 ↗:
- The height of those mountains was from five to seven thousand feet above our level, by angular measurement with a theodolite.
- 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC ↗, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 91 ↗:
- It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.
- French: théodolite
- German: Theodolit
- Italian: teodolite
- Portuguese: teodolito
- Russian: теодоли́т
- Spanish: teodolito
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