géodésie

See also: geodesie

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γεωδαισία (geōdaisía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒe.ɔ.de.zi/

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Noun

géodésie f (plural géodésies)

1. geodesy (discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena in three-dimensional, time-varying space)

Related terms

• géodésien
• géodésique
• géodésiste

Descendants

• → Arabic: جِيُودِيسْيَا (jiyūdīsyā)
• → Dutch: geodesie
  • → Indonesian: geodesi
• → English: geodesy
• → Persian: ژئودزی (že'odezi)
• → Turkish: jeodezi, geodezi

Further reading

• “géodésie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.