the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to geodesy or to surveying.
Pertaining to the extension of theorems of plane geometry to figures drawn on curved surfaces.
Also geodesic, geodesical, geodetical.
n. A geodetic line.
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adj. of or relating to or determined by geodesy
Word Usage
"N THE DECADE starting with 1816, Gauss spent a lot of time away from home directing a massive effort to survey areas of Germany, an endeavor we today would call a geodetic survey."