groundplot

American  

[ground-plot] / ˈgraʊndˌplɒt /

noun

1. Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.

2. ground plan.

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Etymology

Origin of groundplot

First recorded in 1570–80; ground ¹ + plot

Example Sentences

The groundplot of it was fifty feet by forty-five; each end is formed by four stout posts, fixed perpendicularly in the ground.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander

And therefore as in history, looking for truth, they go away full fraught with falsehood: so in poesy, looking for fiction, they shall use the narration but as an imaginative groundplot of a profitable invention.

From English literary criticism by Various