Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In crystallography, pertaining to the three systems in which the axes are at right angles with each other. See
crystallography .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Crystallog.) Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective crystallography having
axes atright angles - adjective surveying being
corrected for thecurvature of theEarth
Etymologies
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ortho- + -metric
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Where the geoid comes into play is determining the orthometric elevation of a point, because Ortho Height is measured from the geoid.
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Where the geoid comes into play is determining the orthometric elevation of a point, because Ortho Height is measured from the geoid.
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