Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A station temporarily occupied in surveying.
- noun An instrument for measuring distances by means of the angle subtended by an object of known dimensions.
- noun In civil and topographical engineering, the method or the instruments by which what are called
stadia measurements are made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surveying A
level staff or levelling rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level, or to measure horizontal distances by sighting the stadia hairs. - noun military (historically) A graduated brass triangle used to measure the distance of a target by comparison of the graduations with the heights of soldiers or horses.
- noun Plural form of
stadion . - noun Plural form of
stadium .
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Examples
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If racism is far less prevalent in English stadia nowadays, it seems to have become open season on anything to do with opposing players, whether personal foible, physical appearance, family matters or off-field indiscretion.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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If racism is far less prevalent in English stadia nowadays, it seems to have become open season on anything to do with opposing players, whether personal foible, physical appearance, family matters or off-field indiscretion.
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The remaining shows (if there are any) will cover the decades of Bad Drum Sound and other musical atrocities, like playing in stadia.
Popping Out « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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Egypt, and, to make them conquerors, he did not suffer them to have their breakfasts until they had run a hundred and eighty stadia, which is about eight of our long leagues.
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Cellular stock right now, because most of the companies who have decided to put their names on stadia, which is the plural for stadium, from the Latin, right -- have had an awful time over the last two years.
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For that reason the Persian cavalry encamped sixty stadia from the enemy.] 72 The story is told by
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Anathoth -- a town in Benjamin, twenty stadia, that is, two or three miles north of Jerusalem; now Anata (compare Isa 10: 30, and the context, Isa 10: 28-32).
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The strictest grammarians would probably dismiss 'stadia' as being incorrect and say that 'stadiums' should be used.
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Personally I do prefer 'stadia' but as I think all the websites in this post use 'stadiums' I thought it might be slightly confusing if I differed in my usage.
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Of the third kind of stadia, 833-1/3 were equal to one degree of the equator; calculating that 1000 of these were sailed during a day and night's voyage, Pytheas would arrive in the latitude of
reesetee commented on the word stadia
Also stadium, stade, or stadion. According to Herodotus, one stade equaled 600 feet, but there were several different lengths of "feet" at the time, depending on the country of origin.
April 18, 2009