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| ge·od·e·sy [ jee óddəssee ] |
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measurement of Earth's surface: the branch of science that deals with the precise measurement of the size and shape of the Earth, the mapping of points on its surface, and the study of its gravitational field
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| [Late 16th century. Via modern Latin< Greek geōdaisia< daiein "to divide"] |
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