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clinometer [klə′näm·əd·ər] (engineering) A hand-held surveying device for measuring vertical angles; consists of a sighting tube surmounted by a graduated vertical arc with an attached level bubble; used in meteorology to measure cloud height at night, in conjunction with a ceiling light, and in ordnance for boresighting. Also known as Abney level. A device for measuring the amount of roll aboard ship. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Once a week the high school juniors teach the youth of North Carolina's Wake County Girls Club to build clinometers and calibrate global positioning systems while surveying and digitizing the trees that comprise the Club's grounds. That was the hope Saturday as about a dozen rover robots roamed the beach while scientists from around the globe talked of autonomous navigation, pitch-and-roll clinometers, rocker-bogie chassis and encoders for dead reckoning. Bush and Salladay aren't the only guys out there with tape measures and clinometers. |
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