The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geodetic \Ge`o*det"ic\, Geodetical \Ge`o*det"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers.
Geodetic line or Geodetic curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on any surface between any two points.
Wiktionary
a. of, or relating to geodesy; geodesic
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or determined by geodesy [syn: geodesic, geodesical]
Wikipedia
Geodetic is an adjective meaning pertaining to geodesy, the science of measurement of the earth, as in, e.g., Geodetic datum, satellite geodesy, geodetic network, etc.
Unrelated to that, we have:
- Geodetic airframe
- Geodetic effect
Usage examples of "geodetic".
Another implication was that the master-builders of Teotihuacan must have possessed an enormous body of astronomic and geodetic data and referred to this data to set the Sun Pyramid at the precise orientation necessary to achieve the desired equinoctial effects.
The only possible way up the steep hillside overlooking the entire perimeter of the harbor was a brushy gulch, or barranca, which the Geodetic Survey chart showed as the location of the old trail up to the sheep ranch back in the 1930's.
What it is saying is that Hall represents somebody who has come into the possession of some original research materials taken from original sources, indicating the possible location of sunken treasure on the ocean floor, along with geodetic survey maps, overlays, and aerial photography.
She drew a blank at the British Library and at the Royal Geographical Society, although she was able to discover that a firm called 'Hunting Surveys' had made a geodetic survey of Saudi Arabia back in 1970.
Hugh thought of telling him that he had bossed surveying parties in the Seabees and had done his own surveying when he was getting started as a contractor-and that while he did not know how accurate a geodetic survey was, he did know that enormously more accurate methods had been used in setting those bench marks than were ever used in the ordinary survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey had flown in and would provide Kabulistan with its first accurate maps.
Coast and Geodetic Survey Department was gleefully taking this opportunity to advise him that the precise spot over which he sat was expected to collapse into the magma at the center of the Earth and by the way we've canceled your life insurance.
When they don't find us aboard any ship, they will suppose us bound for Orcus, and call Nova Roma for a stat of the most detailed geodetic survey map available.
Still better maps may be ordered by the Soviet Embassy from our Coast and Geodetic Survey at very low prices.
It impressed Patsy: the Doc had sketched as quickly as it could move the pen, but the result was as carefully drawn as any Geodetic Survey chart.
Coast and Geodetic Survey Department was gleefully taking this opportunity to advise him that the precise spot over which he sat was expected to collapse into the magma at the center of the Earth and by the way weve canceled your life insurance.
I stopped at the next Key on the way back toward Miami, and bought the same Coast and Geodetic Survey chart.
The man was still sorting through a pile of geodetic survey sounding charts of the Santa Barbara Channel area hunting for something.
Whoever they were, these builders appeared to have left their characteristic fingerprints all over the world in the form of cyclopean polygonal masonry, site layouts involving astronomical alignments, mathematical and geodetic puzzles, and myths about gods in human form.