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Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.

Perambulate :: Perambulate (v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line..

Survey :: Survey (n.) The act of surveying; a general view, as from above..

Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..

Theodolite :: Theodolite (n.) An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed..

Surview :: Surview (v. t.) To survey; to make a survey of.

Chorograph :: Chorograph (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc..

Surveyance :: Surveyal (n.) Survey.

Resurvey :: Resurvey (n.) A second or new survey.

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.

Dialing :: Dialing (n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor..

Surveyorship :: Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port..

Call :: Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land..

Base :: Base (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles..

Hydrographer :: Hydrographer (n.) One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters..

Survey :: Survey (v. t.) To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country..

Chart :: Chart (n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts..

Surveying :: Surveyance (n.) Survey; inspection.

View :: View (v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects..

Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.

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