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plane surveying

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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