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surveying

UK/səˈveɪ.ɪŋ//sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/

surveying noun: the applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them. Also the present participle and gerund of survey.

Noun

surveying (countable and uncountable, plural surveyings)

  1. The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.

Also used as

surveying is also the present participle and gerund of survey.

surveying meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Persian

surveying in Hindi

science of accurately determining the position of points
सर्वेक्षण sarvekṣaṇ, नापजोख nāpjokh

surveying in Bengali

জরিপ করা হচ্ছে

surveying in Persian

science of accurately determining the position of points
نقشه برداری

Examples of surveying in a sentence

  • Historically, trigonometry has been applied in areas such as geodesy, surveying, celestial mechanics and navigation.
  • If you stop and get out, you will see a cutline for line-of-sight surveying.
  • National Library of Medicine, in reality, this “independent” surveying was conducted by R.J.

All 24 example sentences with surveying

Forms of surveying

pluralsurveyings

Origin of surveying

From survey + -ing.

Words formed from surveying

Phrases with surveying

Words that rhyme with surveying

Questions about surveying

What does surveying mean?
Surveying means the applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
What is surveying in Hindi?
Surveying in Hindi is सर्वेक्षण (sarvekṣaṇ), नापजोख (nāpjokh). See Surveying meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is surveying?
Surveying is a noun.
How do you pronounce surveying?
Surveying is pronounced /sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ (US).
What is the plural of surveying?
The plural of surveying is surveyings.

Words near surveying in the dictionary

  1. surveyed
  2. surveyee
  3. surveyees
  4. surveyest
  5. surveyeth
  6. surveying
  7. surveyingly
  8. surveyings
  9. surveylike
  10. surveyor
  11. surveyor general

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surveying (page history and authors); surveying (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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