Definition of Geodesies

1. geodesy [n] - See also: geodesy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geodesies

geodatabases
geode
geodemographic
geodemographically
geodemographics
geodemography
geodephagous
geodes
geodesic
geodesic dome
geodesic domes
geodesic line
geodesical
geodesically
geodesics
geodesies (current term)
geodesist
geodesists
geodesy
geodetic
geodetic effect
geodetical
geodetically
geodetics
geodic
geodiferous
geodimeter
geodimeters
geodome
geodomes

Literary usage of Geodesies

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

1. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1865)
"(3) By a similar process it may be shewn that if from all points of a line drawn on a given surface geodesies of equal length are drawn perpendicular to ..."

2. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"which are drawn parallel to tlie tangents to the geodesies at their point of meeting. ... Hence, the geodesies joining any point on a quadric to two ..."

3. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Surfaces, reciprocally polar, relations between infinitesimal elements. Demoulin, ACR 114 (1892) 1102-. — oí revolution cut by sphere in geodesies. ..."

4. Lectures on the Calculus of Variations by Oskar Bolza (1904)
"According to a well-known theorem due to GAUSS,2 the lines u — const, are orthogonal to the geodesies v = const. 11. e., the length of the arc is | u \ ..."

5. The Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics (1871)
"The portion of surface between the two geodesies may be developed on this, the geodesies themselves coinciding of course with ..."

6. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Felix Klein, Robert Hermann (1979)
"The space of all geodesies of the Riemannian manifold Z which are perpendicular to a submanifold w of Z is a maximal integral submanifold of the exterior ..."

7. Theory of Differential Equations by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1906)
"... are asymptotic lines (being the lines touched by the principal tangents of the surface at successive points), lines of curvature, and geodesies ; and, ..."

8. A Treatise on Solid Geometry by Percival Frost, Joseph Wolstenholme (1863)
"Hence, since p has been shewn to be constant, pd is constant. 5G8. Tl,e constant pd has the same value for all geodesies passing through an umbilicus. ..."

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