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Inclinometer

🔄 Synonyms of "Inclinometer"

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Word	Definition
clinometernoun	An apparatus for measuring a vertical angle, a slope, or the height of a large object (e.g. a tree).
dip circle	Dip circles (also dip needles) are used to measure the angle between the horizon and the Earth's magnetic field (the dip angle).

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Inclinometer"

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Word	Definition
clinometernoun	An apparatus for measuring a vertical angle, a slope, or the height of a large object (e.g. a tree).
dip circle	Dip circles (also dip needles) are used to measure the angle between the horizon and the Earth's magnetic field (the dip angle).
artificial horizonnoun	(aviation) An instrument that displays the pitch and roll of an aircraft in flight by comparing its attitude to a gyroscopically-maintained indication of the flat horizon line.
declinatornoun	An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
inclinometrynoun	The measurement of the Earth's magnetic field by means of an inclinometer
direction indicatornoun	(automotive) A turn signal or indicator.
dipsectornoun	An instrument for observing the dip of the horizon.
dip sectornoun	An instrument used for measuring the dip of the horizon.
orientatornoun	An instrument for orientating.
turn-and-bank indicatornoun	An aircraft instrument that shows both the aircraft's rate of turn about the vertical axis and also the amount of banking about the longitudinal axis.
oblique planenoun	A plane which declines from the zenith, or inclines toward the horizon.
pantometernoun	An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.
universal instrumentnoun	(astronomy) A kind of altitude and azimuth instrument. The object end of the telescope is placed at right angles to the eye end, with a prism of total reflection at the angle, and the eye end constitutes a portion of the horizontal axis of the instrument, having the eyepiece at the pivot and in the center of the altitude circle, so that the eye has convenient access to both at the same time.
dip of the horizonnoun	The angle of the horizon below the level of the eye.
reclinationnoun	The act of leaning or reclining.
octantnoun	(geometry) The eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant.
station staffnoun	An instrument for taking angles in surveying.
trigonometernoun	An instrument for solving plane right-angled figures by inspection.
clinographnoun	A measuring tool that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
graphometernoun	A surveyor's instrument for measuring angles.