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say it: jee-AH-duh-see
geodesy is a noun meaning "the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points". It is pronounced /dʒiˈɑdəsi/ — jee-AH-duh-see. It carries one recorded sense.
the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for geodesy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.