teletopometer

English

Etymology

tele- +‎ topo- +‎ -meter

Noun

teletopometer (plural teletopometers)

  1. (historical) A surveyor's instrument with telescopes and a tripod, able to measure distances, altitudes, etc. of inaccessible points without either a traditional baseline or the use of trigonometry.
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