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

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In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.

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