PLANE TABLE Definition & Meaning

plane table

or plain table

noun

Surveying.

a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.

plane-table

[ pleyn-tey-buhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

plane-tabled, plane-tabling.

to survey with a plane table.

plane table

noun

a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly

verb

to survey (a plot of land) using a plane table

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of plane table¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Origin of plane table²

First recorded in 1870–75

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Much better was the plane table—an expeditious medium of which Mademoiselle Laverrière had made use for the purpose of noting down in an album the direct communications of Louis XII.,

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Additionally I had had some experience in plane table surveying but none of these attributes had a place in the kind of life I envisioned.��

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Theodolite and plane table work are not suited to very cold climates.

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The word is found in some older English Dictionaries, and in France and Italy is still applied to the traversing index of a plane table or of a sextant.

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