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A surveying technique in which a region is divided into a series of triangular elements based on a line of known length so that accurate measurements of distances and directions may be made by the application of trigonometry.
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The network of triangles so laid out.
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The location of an unknown point, as in navigation, by the formation of a triangle having the unknown point and two known points as the vertices.
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