geodesy

English

WOTD – 2 July 2012

Alternative forms

• geodæsy (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French géodésie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin geōdaesia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek γεωδαισία (geōdaisía), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + δαίω (daíō, “to divide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiːˈɒdɪsi/
• IPA^(key): /dʒiˈɑdəsi/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

geodesy (usually uncountable, plural geodesies)

1. (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

Related terms

• geodesic
• geodetics
• geodetic
• geodetic surveying

Translations

scientific discipline

• Arabic: جِيُودِيسْيَا f (jiyudīsyā)
• Armenian: գեոդեզիա (hy) (geodezia), երկրաբաշխություն (erkrabašxutʻyun)
• Basque: geodesia
• Bulgarian: геоде́зия (bg) f (geodézija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大地測量學／大地测量学 (zh) (dàdì cèliàngxué), 大地测量学 (zh) (dàdì cèliángxué), 測地學／测地学 (zh) (cèdìxué), 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)
• Icelandic: landmæling f, landmælingafræði f
• Indonesian: geodesi (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)

Further reading

• geodesy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• God's eye