Definition of "geodetical" []

• Of, or relating to geodesy; geodesic (adjective)

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• "There was also much work on important subjects more or less connected with his official duties ” such as geodetical survey work, the establishment of time-balls at different places, longitude determinations, observation of eclipses, and the determination of the density of the Earth."
• "States surveys as far as practicable, including the geodetical principle of ownership in lieu of the policy of allowing the miner to follow his vein, "with its dips, angles and variations under the adjoining land of his neighbor," which policy is declared to be the source of incalculable legislation."
• "From astronomical considerations, it is true, Newcomb estimated the ratio at 1/308; [913] but for obtaining this particular datum, geodetical methods are unquestionably to be preferred."