maanmittaus

Finnish

noun
Definitions
  • surveying, land surveying art and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them
  • geomatics discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information
  • geodesy scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth

Etymology

Compound from Finnish maa (land, earth, country, ground, soil, of land, nation, of earth, country's, earth's, of country) + Finnish mittaus (measurement)derived from Swedish lantmäteri (surveying).

Origin

Swedish

lantmäteri

Gloss

surveying

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