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Circumferentor - Wikipedia
A circumferentor, or surveyor's compass, is an instrument used in surveying to measure horizontal angles. It was superseded by the theodolite in the early 19th ...
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CIRCUMFERENTOR Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a surveyor's compass with diametral projecting arms each carrying a vertical slit sight 2. a graduated wheel formerly used to measure tires.
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Compasses Circumferentors - Compleat Surveyor
A Circumferentor is a Surveyor's Compass - an instrument with a fixed alidade (typically running North and South) that takes bearings with a magnetic needle.
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circumferentor
circumferentor (səˈkʌmfərɛntə(r)) Also 7 -er. [f. circumferent + -or, -er of the agent.] 1. Surveying. An instrument consisting of a flat brass bar with sights at the ends and a circular brass box in the middle, containing a magnetic needle, which plays over a graduated circle; the whole being suppo...
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Circumferentor (aka "Surveyor's Compass) - Land Surveyors United
The circumferentor, commonly referred to as a surveyor's compass, is a historical surveying instrument that played a pivotal role in land surveying for ...
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Surveying Compass - Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Jefferson almost certainly owned and used a plain surveying compass (in England it was known as a circumferentor). It would have been his major surveying ...
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CIRCUMFERENTOR Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Circumferentor definition: an alidade equipped with a compass and two diametrically opposed vertical arms with slits for sighting through.
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circumferentor - Land Surveyors Dictionary - Land Surveyors United
A Survey Compass, otherwise known as Circumferentor, is an instrument used in surveying to measure horizontal angles. It was superseded by the theodolite in the ...
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Circumferentor | The Channel - Ingenium
A circumferentor, also known as a surveyor's compass, measures horizontal angles and bearings. This instrument enables surveyors to establish ...
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Of the Construction and Use of the Plain-Table, and Circumferentor.
Place the Center of the Protractor on the Point C. Then the Degrees cut by the Needle at the Observation in C, being above 180, namely, 216 Degrees 30 Minutes, ...
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circumferencer
† cirˈcumferencer Obs. = circumferentor 1.1672 Petty Pol. Anat. 375 The admeasurement of land..with a circumferencer.
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circumventor
circumventor, -er (sɜːkəmˈvɛntə(r)) [a. L. circumventor one who circumvents, or f. circumvent + -er. Cf. inventor, preventer.] 1. One who circumvents.c 1540 in Burnett Records iii. xvi, Attainder of T. Cromwell (R.), The most false and corrupt traitour, deceiver, and circumventor against your most r...
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Compass (architecture)
A surveyor's compass (or circumferentor) is a measuring instrument used in surveying horizontal angles.
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John Grundy Sr.
Surveying
Grundy used a number of devices to enable him to carry out surveys, including a theodolite, a circumferentor, Beighton's improved plane table
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planchette
planchette (plænˈʃɛt, plɑ̃ʃɛt) [a. F. planchette small board, dim. of planche plank.] 1. ‘A small plank or board’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858). 2. An instrument, invented about 1855, used in the investigation of automatism and other psychical phenomena, consisting of a small board, generally heart-sh...
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