ALIDAD

alidade, alidad

(noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles

alidade, alidad

(noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

alidad (plural alidads)

Archaic form of alidade.

Anagrams

• la-di-da

Source: Wiktionary



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COVERT

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