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geodesist

  • a word derived from geodesy.
    geodesy
    noun
    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.

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“There are many questions to be resolved,” says Kyoto University geodesist Takuya Nishimura.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024

A panorama of the night sky from Zhongshan Station in Antarctica shot by geodesist Hang Li of China’s Wuhan University in Hubei.

From Nature ● Apr. 24, 2018

Bock is a geodesist, someone who studies the shape of the Earth.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2015

“Venice appears to be continuing to subside at a rate of about 2mm a year,” says Yehuda Bock, a research geodesist with Scripps who has been studying Venice subsidence since 2001.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2015

No geodesist can proceed far in his work without encountering the irregularities of the mathematical surface, and it is necessary that he should know how they affect his astronomical observations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

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