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单词 to take the angles
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to take the angles
a. Nautical and Surveying. to take the angles: to take bearings using a sextant, theodolite, or similar instrument. Obsolete.
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1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 138 You saye I shall take the Angles of sight of euerye place that I can see in the Horizont of my place.]
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 6 After you have taken the Angles..You must Protract or lay down the Figure.
1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. 74 The other Distances may be got sufficiently exact by Intersections of a good Needle, without any other Instrument to take the Angles.
1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 190 Endeavoured to take the angles on shore with a..theodolite.
1861 D. Livingstone in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 281 We measured a base along the shore of 900 feet, and then took the angles.
1872 W. D. Johnson Diary 18 June in Rangelands (1993) 15 114/2 Fred and I the first to take the angles and sketch.
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