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photogrammeter|fəʊtəʊˈgræmɪtə(r)|
[f. prec. + -meter.]
A photographic camera combined with a theodolite, for use in surveying, or for taking pictures for use in map-making; a phototheodolite.
1891Nature 3 Sept. 426/2 One other instrument, quite recently added to the apparatus of the surveyor, is the photographic camera, converted for his especial benefit into a photogrammeter. 1893Athenæum 25 Nov. 737/3 With respect to [lunar distances] the camera or photogrammeter yields more trustworthy results than does the sextant. 1898Nature 14 Apr. 563/1 In the earliest form of surveying camera or photogrammeter,..the instrument consisted of little more than an ordinary bellows camera, set on a horizontal circle, and moving about a vertical axis. |