单词 | hydrographic department |
释义 | > as lemmasHydrographic Department (or Office) = hydrographical adj. Hydrographic Department (or 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > hydrography > [adjective] hydrographic1665 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 24 Those dreadful flats of Death, where notwithstanding our Hydrographic cards..we had doubtless been cast away. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 32 The..traverses..Are on the hydrographic circle laid. 1854 Navy List 187 Hydrographic and Harbour Department, Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) v. 106 These three rivers should all be regarded as belonging to one hydrographic basin. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 11 The Chart-room..with ranges of shelves stocked with charts and hydrographic, magnetic, and meteorological instruments. < as lemmas |
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