Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One versed in geodesy; a geodetic surveyor. Also geodesian, geodete.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in geodesy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who works with or studies
geodetics .
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Examples
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A practicing chemist and geodesist by profession, he nevertheless considered scientific philosophy, and especially logic, to be his vocation.
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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For example who would ever think of a carpet installer, optician, construction estimator, geodesist, and agricultural-engineering technician as having the same aptitudes?
Discover What You’re Best At Linda Gale 1998
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William F. Whelan was a cartographer and geodesist for the Army Map Service who played a mean, nay, a wild cornet.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post John Kelly 2011
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"It is becoming clear that we are receiving good information for the regions that are of interest from a geophysical point of view," says TUM geodesist Prof. Reiner Rummel, chairman of the consortium, who presented the first interim results of the mission on May 7 at the
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"The new elevation came in at only a few inches different than the previous observations," said Larry Signani, team geodesist for all three expeditions.
KOMO News - News 2010
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The geodesist from Bonn is co-author of a scientific paper, which has just been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The scientist is a geodesist at the University of Bonn, and also a coauthor of a new scientific paper detailing the findings which appears in the latest issue of the respected Journal of Geophysical Research.
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Let the term geoid apply to the natural irregular surface of the earth and the term spheroid to the ideal regular sur - face of the geodesist which coincides nearly with sealevel and is necessarily a level surface.
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