geodesy

English

WOTD – 2 July 2012

Alternative forms

• geodæsy (archaic)

Etymology

From French géodésie, from Medieval Latin geōdaesia, from Ancient Greek γεωδαισία (geōdaisía), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + δαίω (daíō, “to divide”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒiːˈɒdɪsi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈɑdəsi/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

geodesy (usually uncountable, plural geodesies)

1. (sciences, geography) The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space

Synonyms

• land surveying
• surveying

 

Related terms

• geodesic
• geodesist
• geodetic
• geodetics
• geodetic surveying
• geoid

 

Translations

scientific discipline

• Arabic: جِيُودِيسْيَا f (jiyudīsyā)
• Armenian: գեոդեզիա (hy) (geodezia), երկրաբաշխություն (erkrabašxutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: geodeziya
• Basque: geodesia
• Bulgarian: геоде́зия (bg) f (geodézija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大地測量學 / 大地测量学 (zh) (dàdì cèliángxué), 測地學 / 测地学 (zh) (cèdìxué)

• Czech: geodézie f
• Danish: geodæsi (da) c
• Dutch: landmeetkunde (nl) f, geodesie (nl) f
• Estonian: geodeesia
• Finnish: geodesia (fi), maanmittaus (fi)
• French: géodésie (fr) f
• Galician: xeodesia (gl) f
• Georgian: გეოდეზია (geodezia)
• German: Geodäsie (de) f
• Greek: γεωδαισία (el) f (geodaisía)
• Hungarian: geodézia (hu), földméréstan (hu)
• Icelandic: landmæling f, landmælingafræði f
• Indonesian: geodesi (id)
• Japanese: 測地学 (そくちがく, sokuchigaku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geodesi (no) m

  Nynorsk: geodesi m

• Persian: ژئودزی (fa) (že'odezi), زمین‌پیمایی (zamin-peymâyi), زمین‌سنجی (zamin-sanji)
• Polish: geodezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: geodésia (pt) f
• Russian: геоде́зия (ru) f (geodɛ́zija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: геодезија f

  Roman: geodezija (sh) f

• Slovak: geodézia f
• Slovene: geodezíja (sl) f
• Spanish: geodesia (es) f
• Swedish: geodesi (sv) c
• Tagalog: heodesya, dusukatan
• Turkish: jeodezi (tr)
• Zazaki: geodesi

Further reading

• geodesy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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