ilmu ukur tanah

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of ilmu ukur (“geometry”) +‎ tanah (“land”), calque of Dutch aardmeetkunde, landmeetkunde (“geodesy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪl.mu ˈukʊr ˈta.nah/

Noun

ilmu ukur tanah (first-person possessive ilmu ukur tanahku, second-person possessive ilmu ukur tanahmu, third-person possessive ilmu ukur tanahnya)

1. geodesy: 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.

   Synonym: geodesi

Further reading

• “ilmu ukur tanah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.