¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Telemeters
1. telemeter [v] - See also: telemeter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telemeters
Literary usage of Telemeters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine (1882)
"He next divided telemeters into single- station telemeters, or those that carry
on the instrument a fixed base, and where the observer has no need to move ..."
2. Engineers' Surveying Instruments, Their Construction, Adjustment, and Use by Ira Osborn Baker (1892)
"These instruments will be discussed at considerable length in Arts, 1 and 2,
respectively, and in Art. 3 various forms of telemeters will be briefly ..."
3. A Treatise on Surveying by Reginald Empson Middleton, Osbert Chadwick, J. du T. Bogle (1911)
"telemeters. The various instruments which have been devised for telemeters. . ,.
, .... . . , . rapidly determining distances, without chain measurements, ..."
4. Surveying and Levelling Instruments: Theoretically and Practically Described by William Ford Robinson Stanley (1901)
"... SOUNDING CHAINS SOUNDING LINES telemeters HAND RODS—RULES. 714.—Instruments
Generally Employed for Measuring Land are chains, steel bands, and tapes. ..."