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Alidad

Definitions: Alidad

Alidad

Noun

1. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.

2. Surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Alidad

Synonym: alidade (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Alidad

Language Translations for "alidad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

aparat për të matur kënd (alidade). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ъгломер (octant), алиада (alidade). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alidaday

   

Russian 

  

угломер (alidade), алидада (alidade, label). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

alhidada (alidade). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alidada (alidade, elevation scale, sight-bar, sight-rule). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

alhidad (alidade, elevation scale, sight-bar, sight-rule). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кутомір (alidade, inclinometer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Alidad

Derivations

Words beginning with "alidad": alidade, alidades, alidads. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Alidad

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-i-l"

-2 letters: dada, dial, laid.

-3 letters: aal, add, aid, ail, ala, dad, dal, did, lad, lid.

-4 letters: aa, ad, ai, al, id, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-i-l"
 

+1 letter: alidade, alidads.

 

+2 letters: alidades.

 

+3 letters: adenoidal, cladodial, dandiacal, lapidated, palisaded, validated.

 

+4 letters: acidulated, additional, amygdaloid, didactical, dilapidate, dyadically, landladies, paradiddle, railroaded, taradiddle, vandalised, vandalized.

 

+5 letters: adrenalized, amygdaloids, deglaciated, delaminated, desalinated, dilapidated, dilapidates, discardable, endocardial, invalidated, paradiddles, radicalised, radicalized, revalidated, scandalised, scandalized, taradiddles, tarradiddle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Alidad


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 69 64 61 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    ..    -..    .-    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101001 01100100 01100001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#105 &#100 &#97 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0069 0064 0061 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357875706770

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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