Associations to the word «Alidade»

Wiktionary

ALIDADE, noun. (cartography) (astronomy) (surveying) A sighting device used for measuring angles.

Dictionary definition

ALIDADE, noun. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
ALIDADE, noun. Surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope