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hydrographic, a.|haɪdrəʊˈgræfɪk|
[See prec.]
= next. Hydrographic Department (or Hydrographic Office), the office of the Hydrographer to the Admiralty in Great Britain, and of the Navy Department in U.S.
In Great Britain the style Hydrographic Department has been used in the official Navy List since 1854, while in other official documents the title is Hydrographical.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 24 Those dreadful flats of Death, where notwithstanding our Hydrographic cards..we had doubtless been cast away. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 574 The..traverses..He on the hydrographic circle laid. 1854Navy List 187 Hydrographic and Harbour Department, Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea v. 106 These three rivers should all be regarded as belonging to one hydrographic basin. 1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. i. 11 The Chart-room..with ranges of shelves stocked with charts and hydrographic, magnetic, and meteorological instruments. |