- Industry: Earth science
- Number of terms: 93452
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Founded in 1941, the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) is an international association representing the interests of professionals in surveying, mapping and communicating spatial data relating to the Earth's surface. Today, ACSM's members include more than 7,000 surveyors, ...
The retaining, in the grantor, some portion of the former estate, which, by the exception, is taken out of or excluded from the grant; whatever is thus excluded remains in him as of his former right of title because it is not granted.
Industry:Earth science
The error caused by lack of parallelism of the two faces of an optical element such as an optical filter.
Industry:Earth science
(1) The measured value of a physical quantity minus the true value of that quantity. (2) The sum of all those systematic and random errors which have not been eliminated from the final, adopted, measured value.
Industry:Earth science
A temperature scale in which 32<sup>o</sup> denotes the freezing point and 212<sup>o</sup> the boiling point of water at 760 mm barometric pressure. Fahrenheit assigned the value 0 to the freezing point of a saturated solution of salt in water and the value 96 to the normal temperature of man.
Industry:Earth science
(1) Those changes of oceanic mean sea level which are peculiar to the oceans, as opposed to those changes which result from changes in crustal elevation. (2) The changes in average oceanic level, regardless of the cause (i.e., regardless of the kind of surface to which elevations are referred) and implying vertical movement of the average oceanic surface at a particular point.
Industry:Earth science
The intersection of the surface of a fault with the surface of the earth or with any artificial surface of reference.
Industry:Earth science
(1) Evidence that is not contained in the body of an agreement, contract, and the like.
Industry:Earth science
The radius of a circle such that there is a given probability that any point whose location is expressed as a function of two variables will be within the given circle.
Industry:Earth science
The submission of proof of title to a tract of land, or subdivision, as shown by an abstract of the recorded patent and deeds of transfer, inheritance, court decree or other means of establishing the title by such evidence as may be approved by competent judicial opinions, including court decrees in the event of controversy.
Industry:Earth science
The amount by which the sum of the internal angles of a triangle exceeds of falls short of 180<sup>o</sup>. Triangular excess is positive for triangles on a sphere or spheroid, zero for triangles on a plane and negative for triangles on a hyperboloid.
Industry:Earth science
