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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..

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

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

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc..

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..

Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc..

Triangulate :: Triangulate (v. t.) To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured..

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..

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

Survise :: Surview (n.) A survey.

Episcopy :: Episcopy (n.) Survey; superintendence.

Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..

Mark :: Mark (n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc.; as, a seamark, a landmark..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.

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

Demicircle :: Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass..

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

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

Stadtholder :: Stadium (n.) A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod..

Rodsman :: Rodsman (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party..

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