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Definition of Alidad

1. Noun. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.

2. Noun. Surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles.

Definition of Alidad

1. alidade [n -S] - See also: alidade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alidad

alibied alibies alibiing alibility alibis alible alicant alicants alickadoo alickadoos

alicorn alicycle alicyclic alicyclic compound alicyclic compounds alidad (current term) alidade alidades alidads alien

alien abduction alien absconder alien nucleic acid alienabilities alienability alienable alienably alienage alienages alienans

Literary usage of Alidad

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

1. Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such by Noël Antoine Pluche (1763)
"... whence you begin to tell the Degrees, be touched by the alidad, or moveable Index, which muft be directed from A into B, and afterward t'rom A, ..."

2. Computer Models for Water-Resources Planning and Management: National Study by Ralph A. Wurbs (1997)
"C alidad.- C alidad is also an object-oriented programming model designed for a workstation environment. The generalized modeling system was recently ..."

3. Bibliotheca Indica by Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) (1907)
"According to Moxon's Diet, it is the Label which is the alidad. Whitney (Century Diet.) quotes in part an interesting passage from the Ency. Brit. ..."

4. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"(plea or fact of having been elsewhere) 'aeh-bai; (erroneously) 'aeh-bi. alidad n. 'aeh-daed. same meaning as alidade. alidade я. ..."

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