- Industry: Earth science
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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, ...
Reversion of property to the state when there is no one competent or available to inherit.
Industry:Earth science
The time at which a clock indicated that an event occurred, minus the actual time of occurrence. The negative of the chronometric correction.
Industry:Earth science
(1) Apparent; capable of being perceived. (2) Outward. (3) Visible from the outside.
Industry:Earth science
(1) That which is legally submitted to a competent tribunal as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it. (2) A means of making proof. (3) Medium of proof.
Industry:Earth science
The period of nutation of a rotating, rigid body not under the influence of external forces. The term is applied, in particular, to the period of nutation a rigid Earth would have if not affected by external forces. It is about 305 mean solar days.
Industry:Earth science
The checking of instrumental accuracy by a combination of computations in the field and in the office. Adjustments other than normal adjustments by the operator cannot be made during field calibration.
Industry:Earth science
An adjustment made to measurements of such quantities as angles or distances to correct for discrepancies in distance or geometry.
Industry:Earth science
A region (space) at every point of which is defined a force (vector) able to cause a charged particle to be accelerated by an amount proportional to the charge on the particle. The electrostatic field is attributable to the presence of an electric charge either within the region or outside of it.
Industry:Earth science
A one parameter family of geodesic lines forming a field of tangent vectors over a portion of a surface.
Industry:Earth science
The film used as the support for a layer of light sensitive emulsion i.e., as the material onto which the emulsion is coated.
Industry:Earth science
