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Definition of Geoids
1. geoid [n] - See also: geoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geoids
Literary usage of Geoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by International Geographical Union (1901)
"Man kann nun zwar nicht wissen, ob eine Vergleichung des geoids in Europa mit
dem Erd-Ellipsoid selbst, das von dem erwähnten Referenz-Ellipsoid ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"VIII. 528t; Resultate der astronomischen Beobachtungen ... in Neu Guinea, XVII.
0'8(Jt; Verlauf de* geoids auf den Kontinenten und Ozeanen, XVII. ..."
3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"The so-called geoid is not geometric in form, and there is in fact an infinite
number of geoids. These discoveries have greatly limited the application of ..."
4. Scientific Papers by George Howard Darwin, Francis Darwin, Ernest William Brown (1908)
"Now such an ellipsoid as this, although not exactly one of Bruns' geoids, must
be more nearly so than any spheroid of ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1885)
"In the former case, the " levels " are approximately spheroidal surfaces —"geoids"—parallel
to the normal surface of the earth; in the latter they are also ..."
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