geometrical pace
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of geometrical pace
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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The common pace is 21⁄2 feet, or half the geometrical pace.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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