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Definition of Geoid
1. a hypothetical surface of the earth [n -S] : GEOIDAL [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geoid
Literary usage of Geoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Precise Surveying and Geodesy by Mansfield Merriman (1899)
"THE EARTH AS A geoid. The word geoid is used to designate the actual figure of the
... The geoid, then, is an irregular figure peculiar to our planet; ..."
2. Elements of Precise Surveying and Geodesy by Mansfield Merriman (1899)
"THE EARTH AS A geoid. The word geoid is used to designate the actual figure of the
... The geoid, then, is an irregular figure peculiar to our planet; ..."
3. Smithsonian Geographical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Robert Simpson Woodward (1906)
"The actual sea surface, on the other hand, is called the geoid. With respect to
the spheroid the geoid is a wavy surface lying partly above and partly below ..."
4. An Introduction to Geodetic Surveying: In Three Parts: I. The Figure of the by Mansfield Merriman (1892)
"THE word geoid is used to designate the actual figure of the surface of the waters of
... The geoid, then, is an irregular figure peculiar to our planet; ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"points, probably not exactly at the sea shore, the mean figure of the earth—the
spheroid—would intersect the actual sea surface, the geoid. ..."
6. Report of the Eighth International Geographic Congress, Held in the United (1905)
"THE FORM OF THE geoid AS DETERMINED BY MEASUREMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES By JOHN F.
HAYFORD, Inspector of Geodetic Work, US Coast and Geodetic Survey In ..."
7. Mathematical Geography by Willis Ernest Johnson (1907)
"geoid Defined. The term geoid, which means " like the earth," is now applied to
that figure which most nearly corresponds to the true shape of the earth. ..."
8. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"It is named the ' geoid.' The height of a place above sea-level means its height
above the geoid. If we knew the distribution of density of the matter ..."
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