clinometer
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Tree measurements are collected using such forestry tools as a low-tech Biltmore stick, a clinometer or, most accurate of all, a laser hypsometer.
From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2016
Measurement of geological features is done with a special compass that has a built-in clinometer, which is a device for measuring vertical angles.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
He used a clinometer, a device that allowed him to determine the height by triangulating, using the tree, his own position and the angle of the distance between them.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2013
Records are sketchy on exactly when the height-measuring clinometer was invented.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2011
The degree of inclination or amount of the dip, which is easily measured by a clinometer, is the steepest angle made with a horizontal plane by a line drawn in the surface of the stratum.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
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