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- noun Plural form of
geodesist .
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Examples
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By tracking its orbit geodesists found that Earth is not round but slightly pear-shaped, with a small, symmetric equatorial bulge.
Vanguard 1 Bente Lilja Bye 2008
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Maybe, maybe not -- the geodesists and sedimentologists are still hashing this all out -- some places going down faster than others -- some almost "stable".
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Swiss geodesists found that the Alps were shrinking as fast as they were growing, and researchers detected aftershocks from the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812.
Harper's Magazine Rafil Kroll-Zaidi 2010
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A team of geodesists and oceanographers from the University of Bonn, as well as from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Sciences, two centres of the Helmholtz Association, have now, for the first time succeeded in doing this.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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A team of geodesists and oceanographers from the University of Bonn, as well as from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Sciences, two centres of the Helmholtz Association, have now, for the first time succeeded in doing this.
innovations-report 2009
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