geodesy

English

WOTD – 2 July 2012

From French géodésie, from Medieval Latin geōdaesia, from Ancient Greek γεωδαισία (geōdaisía), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + δαίω (daíō, “to divide”).

geodesy (usually uncountable, plural geodesies)

(sciences, geography) The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space

scientific discipline

Arabic: جِيُودِيسْيَا‎ f (jiyudīsyā)
Armenian: գեոդեզիա (hy) (geodezia), երկրաբաշխություն (erkrabašxutʿyun)
Basque: geodesia
Bulgarian: геодезия (bg) f (geodézija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大地測量學 (zh), 大地测量学 (zh) (dàdì cèliángxué), 測地學 (zh), 测地学 (zh) (cèdìxué)
Czech: geodézie f
Danish: geodæsi (da) c
Dutch: landmeetkunde (nl) f, geodesie (nl) f
Estonian: geodeesia
Finnish: geodesia (fi), maanmittaus (fi)
French: géodésie (fr) f
Galician: xeodesia f
German: Geodäsie (de) f
Greek: γεωδαισία (el) f (geodaisía)
Hungarian: geodézia (hu)
Icelandic: landmæling f, landmælingafræði f
Indonesian: geodesi (id)

Japanese: 測地学 (そくちがく, sokuchigaku)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: geodesi (no) m

Nynorsk: geodesi m
Persian: ژئودزی‎ (fa) (žeodezi), زمین‌پیمایی‎ (zamīn-peymāyī), زمین‌سنجی‎ (zamīn-sanǰī)
Polish: geodezja (pl) f
Portuguese: geodésia (pt) f
Russian: геоде́зия (ru) f (geodɛ́zija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: геодезија f

Roman: geodezija (sh) f
Slovak: geodézia f
Slovene: geodezíja (sl) f
Spanish: geodesia (es) f
Swedish: geodesi (sv) c
Tagalog: dusukatan
Turkish: jeodezi (tr)

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