Definition of Geoidal

1. geoid [adj] - See also: geoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geoidal

geographies
geographist
geographists
geography
geography fair
geohazard
geohazards
geoheliocentric
geoheliocentrism
geohydrologic
geohydrologies
geohydrologist
geohydrologists
geohydrology
geoid
geoidal (current term)
geoids
geoisomer
geoisomeric
geoisomers
geoisotherm
geoisotherms
geokinesis
geolatry
geolinguist
geolinguistic
geolinguistically
geolinguistics
geolinguists
geolithological

Literary usage of Geoidal

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The method of finding an osculating spheroid from arc measures remained in its essence that of taking averages of measurements reduced to the geoidal ..."

2. An Introduction to Geodetic Surveying: In Three Parts: I. The Figure of the by Mansfield Merriman (1892)
"Internal fires cause parts of the earth's crust to slowly rise or fall, and immediately the geoidal surface undergoes a like alteration. ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"sen ting the intersection of a geoidal shell, the depression of the crust below which was equal in volume to the protuberance of the continents above it. ..."

4. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1906)
"B. Shape—geoidal. i. Cause: gravitation and centrifugal force; the latter illustrated by rotating elastic hoops. a. Proofs: Changes of altitude of star ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... more or less in error for three reasons: (i) the extraordinary geoidal deformation of the level surface at the observing stations in submontane regions; ..."

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