plane surveying

noun

1. the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature

Example Sentences

Professor Daniel Carhart, of the University of Pittsburgh, has given us "Field Work for Civil Engineers" and "Treatise on Plane Surveying."

From Project Gutenberg

It put me up to my ears in plane surveying—and gave me a nasty shock.

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