theodolite

1. 1.

   a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

   Synonymstransit

   Broadersurveying instrument

   Narrowertachymeter

   Partsalidade

Other forms of theodolite

plural

theodolites·

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 theodolite

What does theodolite mean?

theodolite means "a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod".

How many syllables are in theodolite?

theodolite has 4 syllables: the-o-do-lite. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for theodolite?

Close synonyms include transit. 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 theodolite a common word?

theodolite 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.