plane table

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   surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board and a ruler that are mounted on a tripod; used to sight and map topographical details

   Broadersurveying instrument

Questions about plane table

What does plane table mean?

plane table means "surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board and a ruler that are mounted on a tripod; used to sight and map topographical details".

Is plane table a common word?

plane table 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.