radial triangulation

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noun Photogrammetry.

triangulation based upon lines radiating from the center of each of two overlapping photographs to certain objects appearing on each photograph.

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This strange triangulation exposes the farce of negotiations.
Jonathan Pollard Means Israeli-American Squabbling Instead of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiation|Raphael Magarik|July 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This is triangulation, except that in this case most of the public is against Obama.
A Republican Opera Buffa|Michael Tomasky|April 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Gone was the timid triangulation that danced around and away from the liberal ideal.
Bob Shrum’s Winners & Losers of 2012|Robert Shrum|December 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But there is no talk of triangulation; instead just a fact-defying rush to reinforce old narratives.
Partisan Spin Denies Obama Credit for Immigration Success|John Avlon|April 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Even while ratcheting up his rhetoric against the GOP, Obama also engaged in a bit of Clintonian triangulation.
Obama Comes Out Swinging|Howard Kurtz|June 29, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He made application at head-quarters for a theodolite to make a triangulation of the distance, but was refused its use.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
The calculation of these distances is made by "triangulation."
Astronomy for Amateurs|Camille Flammarion
A quadrant of a circle is one quarter of the same, being bounded on two of its sides by two radial lines, as in Figure 49.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught|Joshua Rose
In kangaroo rats, which are saltators, the index rises to more than 100 owing to the lengthening of the radial component.
Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii|Henry W. Setzer
They were in a section of the passage now that corresponded roughly to the statue's radial artery.
The Jewels of Aptor|Samuel R. Delany