alidade

Other forms of alidade

plural

alidades·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alidade

What does alidade mean?

alidade means "surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alidade?

alidade has 3 syllables: a-li-dade. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for alidade?

Close synonyms include alidad, alidad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alidade a common word?

alidade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.