Definition of Surveying instrument

1. Noun. An instrument used by surveyors.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Surveying Instrument

survey meters
survey monument
survey monuments
surveyability
surveyable
surveyal
surveyals
surveyance
surveyances
surveyed
surveyee
surveyees
surveyest
surveyeth
surveying
surveying instrument (current term)
surveyings
surveylike
surveyor
surveyor's instrument
surveyor's level
surveyors
surveyorship
surveyorships
surveyour
surveys
surview
surviewed
surviews
survise

Literary usage of Surveying instrument

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde by Stichting Mathematisch centrum, Wiskundig Genootschap (Netherlands), Wiskundig Genootschap (1907)
"... contains the method of constructing a surveying instrument of a peculiar form, which has a level filled with water and two vertically suspended weights. ..."

2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1920)
"•GROMA': THE ANCIENT LAND-surveying instrument. By F. TANDY (FROM NOTES SUPPLIED BY DR. MATTED DELLA CORTE). It was in the seventeenth century that erudite ..."

3. Surveying and Levelling Instruments: Theoretically and Practically Described by William Ford Robinson Stanley (1901)
"The great object desirable in the telescope, when used as a part of a surveying instrument, is that it shall assist vision in obtaining the true direction, ..."

4. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1880)
"THE PEDOMETER AS A surveying instrument. BY PROFESSOR HP MUNROE. ENGINEERS and surveyors are frequently called upon to make rough ..."

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