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)

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.

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