Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A grid of longitudinal and latitudinal lines, on which maps are drawn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A design or draft divided into squares to facilitate copying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
grid ofhorizontal andvertical lines. - noun specifically, optics (
UK ) Synonym forreticle - noun specifically, geography The
network of lines oflatitude andlongitude that make a up acoordinate system such as the one used on theEarth . - noun A nearly square or nearly rectangular region created by a graticule.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I have just learned via a MetaFilter post the word graticule, which is obscure enough that it's not in the American Heritage Dictionary.
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The geohashing algorithm generates a point on the Earth within each square bordered by integer latitude and longitude lines (known as a graticule).
Irregular Webcomic! 2008
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Nor does the clip look as if it originated from military equipment – you would normally expect to see embedded graticule markings, time stamps and other coding.
Archive 2007-04-01 Helen 2007
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I once owned an oscilloscope which had a knob for graticule illumination: that controlled a light set into the side of a gridded green perspex cover over the screen proper.
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Hence graticuled ppl. a., fitted with a graticule.
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July 398/2 A graduation line is centred in the microscope eyepiece graticule.
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Behind Sam's head the graticule of trees glowed with a fiery foliage, like a badly-printed colour photo with the red block out of register.
Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964
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This sweep line supplies the extent parameters for a WMS GetProfileData request. private void CreateImages (object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) string colorization = "Elevation"; string filter = "All"; string graticule = "True"; string drapeline = "False"; double profileWidth = 300; double profileHeight = 500; double dx = 0; double dy = 0; double len = 0; double t = 0; string profileUrl = null;
Planet Geospatial 2010
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The Settings of the MarbleWidget would need to default to some configuration that doesn't show all the planet-specific floatitems and properties (like the graticule, etc.)
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The Settings of the MarbleWidget would need to default to some configuration that doesn't show all the planet-specific floatitems and properties (like the graticule, etc.)
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 85.218.171.78 2009
reesetee commented on the word graticule
Great word! Thanks, SarahCN. :-)
September 27, 2007
qms commented on the word graticule
To resize an image the classic tool
Encloses the source in a lattice rule,
A copyist then,
With pencil or pen
Precisely can follow the graticule.
February 5, 2018