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geodæsy

geodæsy is the archaic spelling of geodesy.

Meaning of geodesy

Noun

geodesy (usually uncountable, plural geodesies)

  1. (usually) The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
    Synonyms:
    land surveying, surveying

Questions about geodæsy

What is geodæsy the archaic spelling of?
Geodæsy is the archaic spelling of geodesy.

Words near geodæsy in the dictionary

  1. geodynamicist
  2. geodynamicists
  3. geodynamics
  4. geodynamo
  5. geodynamos
  6. geodæsy
  7. geodætical
  8. geoecodynamic
  9. geoecodynamics
  10. geoecological
  11. geoecologically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geodæsy (page history and authors); geodesy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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