Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument, similar in principle to the common carpenters' level, used to determine the slope of an aqueduct and the levels of the country through which it passes.
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Examples
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I learned about gromas and chorobates, plane tables and astrolabes, theodolites and transits … and then tellurometers, total stations, inertial survey systems and, of course the Global Positioning Satellite system.
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM ewillett 2010
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I learned about gromas and chorobates, plane tables and astrolabes, theodolites and transits … and then tellurometers, total stations, inertial survey systems and, of course the Global Positioning Satellite system.
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM ewillett 2010
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A picture of the chorobates will be found drawn at the end of the book.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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When the level is thus found by means of the chorobates, the amount of fall will also be known.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Levelling is done either with dioptrae, or with water levels, or with the chorobates, but it is done with greater accuracy by means of the chorobates, because dioptrae and levels are deceptive.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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