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Triangulation   /traɪˌæŋgjulˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Triangulation

noun
1.
A trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points a known distance apart; useful in navigation.
2.
A method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated.





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"Triangulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... long ago made a name for himself in science. After some remarkable publications upon the trigonometrical junction of France and England (1861) and upon the triangulation and leveling of Corsica (1865), he was put at the head of the geodesic service of the army in 1879. In 1880, the learned geodesian was sent as a delegate to the conference of Berlin for settling the boundaries of the new Greco-Turkish frontiers. In January of the same year, he was elected ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various


Words linked to "Triangulation" :   surveying, triangulate, trig, trigonometry


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