surveyor's instrument

Questions about surveyor's instrument

What does surveyor's instrument mean?

surveyor's instrument means "an instrument used by surveyors".

What is another word for surveyor's instrument?

Close synonyms include surveying instrument. 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 surveyor's instrument a common word?

surveyor's instrument 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.