| 单词 | traverse point |
| 释义 | > as lemmastraverse point traverse point n. †(a) (in navigation) a point on a chart specifying the position of a ship, formed by the intersection of two lines or two circles drawn with compasses (obsolete. rare); †(b) the point at which a mountain pass, etc., crosses from one side of a mountain range to the other (obsolete. rare); (c) Surveying any of the control points (control point n. (a) at control n. Compounds 6) used in a traverse survey.Apparently an isolated instance in sense (b). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > mountain pass > top of traverse point1637 crest- 1637 R. Norwood Sea-mans Pract. ix. 105 Therefore in the Meridian of that Traverse-point, I make a Prick in the Latitude of 39 deg. 36 minutes, and from that Prick I set to the Eastwards in the same Latitude 430 miles, and where that ends, is the traverse-point answering to the 24 day. 1657 Wright's Certain Errors Navigation (new ed.) xxiii. 44 When you sail by the sixth or seventh rumb..there is certain difficulty which may breed great errour in finding the traverse point. 1883 Man. Syst. Surv. of Dominion Lands (Canad. Department Interior) 23 Such temporary marks or posts will be called traverse points. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 304 This main pass of Jura..reaches its traverse-point very nearly under the highest summit of that part of the chain. 2004 M. S. Cheves in Land Devel. Handbk. (ed. 2) xiv. 258/1 Classification of a traverse by closure..will not indicate where the traverse points really lie or what could be done to improve the traverse. < as lemmas |
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