Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in the science or engaged in the practice of hydrography; specifically, one who has charge of hydrographic surveys and of other operations belonging to hydrography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.
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- noun A
scientist whose speciality ishydrography .
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Examples
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Ken Stumpf, supervising hydrographer for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, monitored water levels and potential flood risks last week.
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Ken Stumpf, supervising hydrographer for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, monitored water levels and potential flood risks last week.
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A year later, he defended his dissertation and obtained a lectureship at Göteborg Högskola, torn between work in radioactivity and hydrography, a conflict his daughter Agnes Rodhe has described as a struggle between his father's wishes and his own interests. 105 His position as a lecturer paid so poorly that he had to work as an assistant hydrographer at his father's oceanographic station in Bornö to supplement his income.
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The Expedition owes great obligations to the Lords of the Admiralty for their unvarying readiness to render us every assistance in their power; and to the warm-hearted and ever-obliging hydrographer to the
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The northernmost channel in our maps, “Maxwell River,” is known to Europeans and natives as Noangwa; Mamballa or the central line is called by the moderns Nshibúl, and the southern is dubbed by the hydrographer, “Rio Konio,” a truly terrible mistake for Sonho.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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In November 1875, Sir Frederick Evans, newly appointed hydrographer of the British Navy, ordered 123 doubtful islands banished from Admiralty Chart 2683 of the Pacific Ocean.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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Navy hydrographer Capt Bernard Tueteberg said the leaking diesel oil had made plotting the object more difficult because sonar behaved differently in water and oil.
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He was a buccaneer, a pirate, a circumnavigator, an author, a captain in the navy and an hydrographer.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter
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This inlet they called Port Dalrymple, after the late hydrographer to the Admiralty in England.
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York, holding an intermediate position between these diverse sections, exhibit a singular combination of the leading physical features of both, and present to the hydrographer a field for research that is quite without a parallel.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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