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Meaning
Noun
●
In Geography & Sciences:
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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Origin
geodesy
English
géodésie
French
geodaesia
Latin
γεωδαισία
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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