alidades

Meaning of alidades

plural noun

a sighting device or pointer for determining directions or measuring angles, used in surveying and (formerly) astronomy.

late Middle English: directly or (in modern use) via French and Spanish from Arabic al-‘iḍāda ‘the revolving radius’, probably based on aḍud ‘upper arm’.

Information about alidades

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of alidades is: alidade.
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Hyphenation of alidades

al-i-dades

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • alidades is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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