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trimetrogon

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tri⋅met⋅ro⋅gon

  [trahy-me-truh-gon]
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–adjective
of or pertaining to a system of aerial photography using three cameras, one pointed directly downward and the others at 60° to it.
Origin:
1940–45; tri- + Gk métro(n) measure + -gon
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tri·met·ro·gon   (trī-mět'rə-gŏn')   
n.  A system of aerial photography in which one vertical and two oblique photographs are simultaneously taken for use in topographic mapping.

[tri- + Metrogon, trademark for a kind of camera lens.]
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