Geodesy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 113 anagrams from letters in geodesy (deegosy).
1560-70; French géodésie Greek geōdaisía, equivalent to geō- geo- + daí(ein) to divide + -sia, variant of -ia -ia (generalized from stems ending
geodesy, je-od′e-si, n. a science whose object is to measure the earth and its parts on a large scale.
And thus much of the geodesy of right lines, by the meanes of rectangled triangles: It followeth now of the triangulate.
geodesy of one distance is when the measurer for the finding of the desired dimension doth not change his place of standing.
And this is the geodesy or manner of measuring of an Icosaedrum.
That in civil engineering affords continuous field practice in geodesy and hydraulics during about a month.
geodesy of right lines is two fold; of one distance, or of two.
The first geodesy or manner of measuring of heighths is thus.
Thirdly, the hands must be steady; for if they shake, the proportion of the geodesy must needes be troubled and uncertaine.
Ever since, the activity of French geodesy has never slackened.
Professor Woodward has published many papers on subjects in astronomy, geodesy, mathematics and mechanics.