geodetic surveying

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noun

the surveying of the earth's surface, making allowance for its curvature and giving an accurate framework for smaller-scale surveys

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Words nearby geodetic surveying

geodesy, geodetic, geodetic latitude, geodetic longitude, geodetic survey, geodetic surveying, Geodimeter, geodome, geoduck, geodynamics, geo-economics

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How to use geodetic surveying in a sentence

By refusing to even acknowledge that there was a campaign kept major polling and media organizations from surveying the race.
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Then he pauses and looks up, doing a quick bout of surveying in his head.
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Were they checking in on conditions at the hospital and surveying local veterans?
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Then, she brings the talk back to Burger Chef, and the surveying she did in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
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ADAM hit its peak in the 2000s, surveying arrestees in 35 counties and inspiring international survey of the same kind.
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There, too, was James Duane, with never so great need of his "surveying eye" to enable him to size up the situation.
The Eve of the Revolution|Carl Becker
The writer having carried the surveying chain, was present at the trial at the Bodmin assizes in 1829.
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“The sun will be down in a few minutes,” said the mate, turning round and once more surveying the western horizon.
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He glanced at Rita, who was standing very near him, surveying the evil little room and its owner with ill-concealed disgust.
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He took her by the shoulders and held her at arms' length, before him, thus surveying her, and there was trouble in his keen eyes.
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