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 (AU) (file)

Noun

geodesy (usually uncountable, plural geodesies)

(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 (erkrabašxutʿyun)
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 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) (žeodezi), زمین‌پیمایی‎ (zamīn-peymāyī), زمین‌سنجی‎ (zamīn-sanǰī)
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: dusukatan
Turkish: jeodezi (tr)
Zazaki: geodesi

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