Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mutually visible; that may be seen the one from the other: applied to signal-and surveying-stations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Surv.) Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective surveying
Mutually visible ; each in sight of the other.
Etymologies
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inter- + visible
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Examples
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Based on a series of intervisible signal stations, each with three masts.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Based on a series of intervisible signal stations, each with three masts.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Apennines, where two buildings separated by some miles of distance are commonly intervisible over the crest of a neighbouring peak, it has happened that a change of level of some one of the points has made it impossible to see the one edifice from the other.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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