单词 | plane-table |
释义 | plane-tablev. Surveying. transitive. To survey (an area or site) with a plane-table. Also occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > survey [verb (intransitive)] > use a plane table plane-table1880 the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > survey [verb (transitive)] > in specific manner level1598 chain1610 bone1712 dial1747 to make a level of1798 triangulate1833 traverse1838 plane-table1880 resect1888 1880 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 50 p. clxxx Captain Woodthorpe accompanied the first advance of the force up to the Paiwar Pass, and plane-tabled the country en route. 1883 H. H. Godwin-Austen et al. Hints to Travellers (ed. 5) i. 109 There is no measuring, no counting of paces or noting of time by a watch, no anxiety about the record, when Plane-Tabling. 1929 Geogr. Jrnl. 73 3 Courtauld began serious geographical work by plane-tabling the Tin Wana and Tajberat valleys. 1950 Amer. Antiq. 16 191/1 He has mapped and plane-tabled a great number of the sites, and has done some digging. 1972 Geogr. Jrnl. 138 299 The position of the snout of the glacier was also plane-tabled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1880 |
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