SURVEYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surveying mean? 

• SURVEYING (noun)
  The noun SURVEYING has 1 sense:

1. the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map

  Familiarity information: SURVEYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURVEYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he studied surveying at college

Hypernyms ("surveying" is a kind of...):

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surveying"):

triangulation (a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated)

Derivation:

survey (plot a map of (land))

 Context examples 

Once orbiting the asteroid, OSIRIS-REx will spend two years surveying it in unprecedented detail.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

“Dear me, sir!” said Mr. Chillip, surveying me with his head on one side.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They observed that during normal conditions, meningeal macrophages were on constant alert against threats, continually extending their thin arms and surveying their environment.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)

He stood still, ears pricked forward, alert and curious, surveying the strange animal that faced him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Elizabeth, after slightly surveying it, went to a window to enjoy its prospect.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We were surveying the completed seal-skin roof.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Jo March, you are perverse enough to provoke a saint! You don't intend to make calls in that state, I hope," cried Amy, surveying her with amazement.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Pals of the Dook, I suppose?” said the landlord, surveying our mud-stained garments with ironical eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The unusual object, called CX330, was first detected as a source of X-ray light in 2009 by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory while it was surveying the bulge in the central region of the Milky Way.

(Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE, NASA)