plane table

or plain table

noun

, Surveying.

a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.

plane-table

[ pleyn-tey-buhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

, plane-ta·bled, plane-ta·bling.

plane table

a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly

First recorded in 1600–10

First recorded in 1870–75

Gujjar Singh, with the plane-table, was detained by bad weather higher up the valley.

Work on the wireless masts went on apace, and the geologist was abroad with his plane-table every day.

Stillwell commenced a contoured plane-table survey of the neighbourhood of Winter Quarters.

The finer ground matter is washed on a plane table, over which a current of water is made to flow.

When the neighbourhood of iron renders the use of the magnet uncertain, a plate or plane table is employed.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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