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Definition of Datums
1. datum [n] - See also: datum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Datums
Literary usage of Datums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1898)
"ON THE TIDES AND datums OF THE LANCASHIRE COAST. TO any one conversant with the
Ordnance Maps, which were first published in England about the year 1847, ..."
2. Digitizing the Future: Defense Mapping Agency edited by William K. James (1999)
"But hundreds of datums are in use. Every area of the world is covered by at least
two datums. When you change datums, most of your coordinates will change! ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"The network will enable engineers to use the sea- level datum on now projects
and to reduce to this datum existing elevations referred to arbitrary datums. ..."
4. Report to International Joint Commission Relating to Official Reference Re by Adolph Frederick Meyer, Arthur V. White (1917)
"... between 1892 and 1914: CORRELATION OF datums The records of observed water
levels on the Lake of the Woods express stages in relation to various datums. ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1903)
"Schlüssel zur sofortigen Umwandlung jedes bürgerlichen datums in das entsprechende
jüdische und umgekehrt ohne irgendwelche Berechnung, ..."
6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Datum, incidentally, is a count noun; in one of its senses it has a plural datums,
which is used with a cardinal number. in place of a single reference ..."
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