adjective. Geodesic.

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.

noun. A geodetic line.

adjective. Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic

adjective. the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on any surface between any two points.

adjective. undefined

adjective. of, or relating to geodesy; geodesic

adjective. of or relating to or determined by geodesy

"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."

geodetic latitude  geodetic leveling  

geodetic curve  geodetical  

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