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plane surveying

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noun

  1. the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature

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Professor Daniel Carhart, of the University of Pittsburgh, has given us "Field Work for Civil Engineers" and "Treatise on Plane Surveying."

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It put me up to my ears in plane surveying—and gave me a nasty shock.

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