I drew outlines (according to my usual custom) of all the hills on the horizon before us, and took angles on them with the theodolite.
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Theodolite
//θiːˈɒdəlaɪt//
Synonyms for "theodolite" (7 found)
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58 translations across 53 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Asturian
1 entries- teodolito noun (instrument)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Basque
1 entries- teodolito noun (instrument)
Belarusian
1 entries- тэадалі́т noun (instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- теодоли́т noun (instrument)
Burmese
1 entries- သီအိုဒိုလိုက် noun (instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 經緯儀 /经纬仪 noun (instrument)
Czech
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Danish
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- theodoliet noun (instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- teodolito noun (instrument)
Estonian
1 entries- teodoliit noun (instrument)
Farefare
1 entries- teodolito noun (instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- teodoliitti noun (instrument)
French
1 entries- théodolite noun (instrument)
Georgian
1 entries- თეოდოლიტი noun (instrument)
German
1 entries- Theodolit noun (instrument)
Greek
1 entries- θεοδόλιχος noun (instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- תֵּאוֹדוֹלִיט noun (instrument)
Hindi
2 entries- थिओडोलाइट noun (instrument)
- थियोडोलाइट noun (instrument)
Hungarian
2 entries- szögmérő noun (instrument)
- teodolit noun (instrument)
Ido
1 entries- teodolito noun (instrument)
Indonesian
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Irish
1 entries- teodailít noun (instrument)
Italian
1 entries- teodolite noun (instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- セオドライト noun (instrument)
Korean
2 entries- 경위의 noun (instrument)
- 세오돌라이트 noun (instrument)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- теодолит noun (instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- teodolitas noun (instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- теодолит noun (instrument)
Manx
1 entries- uillin-towsheyder noun (instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- teodolitt noun (instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- teodolitt noun (instrument)
Odia
1 entries- ଥିଓଡ଼ୋଲାଇଟ noun (instrument)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آینه noun (instrument)
Persian
1 entries- تئودولیت noun (instrument)
Polish
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- teodolito noun (instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Russian
1 entries- теодоли́т noun (instrument)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- teodail noun (instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- teodòlīt noun (instrument)
- теодо̀лӣт noun (instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Spanish
1 entries- teodolito noun (instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Tamil
1 entries- தியோடலைட்டு noun (instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- теодолі́т noun (instrument)
Uzbek
2 entries- teodolit noun (instrument)
- теодолит noun (instrument)
Vietnamese
1 entries- máy kinh vĩ noun (instrument)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The height of those mountains was from five to seven thousand feet above our level, by angular measurement with a theodolite.
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It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.
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Germany, of all countries, was most vitally concerned in it; but even a cave-dweller in La Fayette Square, seeking only a measure of motion since the Crusades, saw before his eyes, in the spring of 1903, a survey of future order or anarchy that would exhaust the power of his telescopes and defy the accuracy of his theodolites.
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