theodolite

See also: théodolite

English

Etymology

From New Latin theodolitus (1571), perhaps containing Ancient Greek θέᾱ (théā, “sight, view”)[1] and Arabic العِضَادَة‎ (al-ʿiḍāda, “astrolabe, alidade”);[2][3] if so, doublet of alidade.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θiːˈɒdəlaɪt/

Noun

theodolite (plural theodolites)

A surveying instrument, consisting of a small mounted telescope, used to measure horizontal and vertical angles.
- 1999, Yangquan Chen, Extracting aerobomb's aerodynamic drag coefficient curve from theodolite data via iterative learning 1‎:

Translations

instrument

Albanian: teodolit (sq) m
Asturian: teodolito m
Azerbaijani: teodolit
Basque: teodolito
Belarusian: тэадалі́т m (teadalít)
Bulgarian: теодоли́т (bg) m (teodolít)
Burmese: သီအိုဒိုလိုက် (siuiduiluik)
Catalan: teodolit m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 經緯儀／经纬仪 (zh) (jīngwěiyí)
Czech: teodolit (cs) m
Danish: teodolit (da) c
Dutch: theodoliet (nl) m
Esperanto: teodolito
Estonian: teodoliit
Finnish: teodoliitti (fi)
French: théodolite (fr) m
German: Theodolit (de) m
Greek: θεοδόλιχος (el) m (theodólichos)
Hebrew: תֵּאוֹדוֹלִיט‎ (he) m (theodolit)
Hindi: थियोडोलाइट (thiyoḍolāiṭ), थिओडोलाइट (thioḍolāiṭ)
Hungarian: teodolit, szögmérő (hu)
Ido: teodolito (io)
Indonesian: teodolit (id)
Irish: teodailít f
Italian: teodolite (it) m
Japanese: セオドライト (ja) (seodoraito)
Korean: 세오돌라이트 (se'odollaiteu), 경위의(經緯儀) (gyeong'wiui)
Kyrgyz: теодолит (teodolit)
Lithuanian: teodolitas m
Macedonian: теодолит m (teodolit)
Manx: uillin-towsheyder m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: teodolitt m
Nynorsk: teodolitt m
Oriya: ଥିଓଡ଼ୋଲାଇଟ (thioṛolaiṭô)
Ottoman Turkish: آینه‎ (ayna)
Persian: تئودولیت‎ (fa) (te'odolit)
Polish: teodolit (pl) m
Portuguese: teodolito m
Romanian: teodolit (ro) n
Russian: теодоли́т (ru) m (teodolít)
Scottish Gaelic: teodail
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: теодо̀лӣт m
Roman: teodòlīt (sh) m
Slovak: teodolit m
Slovene: teodolit m
Spanish: teodolito m
Swedish: teodolit (sv) c
Tamil: தியோடலைட்டு (tiyōṭalaiṭṭu)
Turkish: teodolit (tr)
Ukrainian: теодолі́т m (teodolít)
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: теодолит (uz) (teodolit)
Roman: teodolit (uz)
Vietnamese: máy kinh vĩ

References

“theodolite”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Olry Terquem, Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, Vol. 20, Paris, 1861, pp. 35/36/37/38
Hexagon Metrology, A Brief History Of Theodolites [article], portable-cmmm.com, Ed° décembre 2006, p. 13

[1] “theodolite”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

[2] Olry Terquem, Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, Vol. 20, Paris, 1861, pp. 35/36/37/38

[3] Hexagon Metrology, A Brief History Of Theodolites [article], portable-cmmm.com, Ed° décembre 2006, p. 13