alidade
Meaning of alidade
noun
a sighting device or pointer for determining directions or measuring angles, used in surveying and (formerly) astronomy.
late Middle English: directly or (in modern use) via French and Spanish from Arabic al-‘iḍāda ‘the revolving radius’, probably based on aḍud ‘upper arm’.
Information about alidade
- It is a name.
- The plural form of alidade is: alidades.
- Languages in which alidade is used:
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Hyphenation of alidade
al-i-dade
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- alidade is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
alidade synonyms
Meaning alidad:
Words that rhyme with alidade
Dade, dade, McDade, brandade, saudade
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