surveying
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
survey
▶verb /səˈveɪ/
- 1 look carefully and thoroughly at.
- 2 examine and record the area and features of (an area of land) so as to construct a map, plan, or description.
- 3 Brit. examine and report on the condition of (a building), especially for a prospective buyer.
- 4 conduct a survey among (a group of people).
- 1 a general view, examination, or description.
■ an investigation of the opinions or experience of a group of people, based on a series of questions.
- 2 an act of surveying.
- 3 a map, plan, or report obtained by surveying.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. surveier, from med. L. supervidere, from super- ‘over’ + videre ‘to see’.
'surveying' also found in these Oxford entries:
alidade
- altazimuth
- bathymeter
- benchmark
- chain
- clinometer
- CS
- datum line
- dip
- fiducial
- field book
- foresight
- geodetic
- gradiometer
- hydrography
- Jacob's staff
- level
- link
- offset
- Ordnance Survey
- photogrammetry
- plane table
- quantity surveyor
- ranging pole
- reconnaissance
- resurvey
- RICS
- salient
- seismic
- sextant
- spot height
- staff
- standpoint
- survey
- surveyor
- tachymeter
- theodolite
- traverse
- triangulate
- triangulation
- triangulation point
- trig point
