alidade
alidade is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument
- noun. surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles
- noun. surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments
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