Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, the method or art of measuring the dip of rock-strata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (geol.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art or operation of measuring the
inclination ofstrata .
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Just as stereophonic means sound from different directions, stereo-photo means light from different directions, and clinometry means that slopes, or inclines, are being measured.
Colony Worlds 2008
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