English
WOTD – 2 July 2012, 2 July 2013, 2 July 2014, 2 July 2015
Etymology
From French géodésie, from Medieval Latin geōdaesia, from Ancient Greek γεωδαισία (geōdaisía), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + δαίω (daíō, “to divide”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dʒiːˈɒdɪsi/
- (US) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiˈɑdəsi/
Noun
geodesy (usually uncountable, plural geodesies)
- (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
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scientific discipline
- Arabic: جِيُودِيسْيَا f (jiyudīsyā)
- Armenian: գեոդեզիա (hy) (geodezia), երկրաբաշխություն (erkrabašxutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: geodeziya
- Basque: geodesia
- Bulgarian: геоде́зия (bg) f (geodézija)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大地測量學 / 大地测量学 (zh) (dàdì cèliángxué), 測地學 / 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 (gl) f
- Georgian: გეოდეზია (geodezia)
- German: Geodäsie (de) f
- Greek: γεωδαισία (el) f (geodaisía)
- Hungarian: geodézia (hu), földméréstan (hu)
- Icelandic: landmæling f, landmælingafræði f
- Indonesian: geodesi (id)
- Japanese: 測地学 (そくちがく, sokuchigaku)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: geodesi (no) m
- Nynorsk: geodesi m
- Persian: ژئودزی (fa) (že'odezi), زمینپیمایی (zamin-peymâyi), زمینسنجی (zamin-sanji)
- 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: heodesya, dusukatan
- Turkish: jeodezi (tr)
- Zazaki: geodesi
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