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English

noun
Definitions
  • (surveying) The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.
  • (civil engineering) The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.

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Prefix from English close (enclosed).

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