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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GEODET'IC
GEODET'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the art of measuring surfaces.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to or determined by geodesy [syn: geodetic, geodesic, geodesical]

Merriam Webster's

also geodetical adjective Etymology: geodesy; after such pairs as heresy : heretic Date: circa 1828 of, relating to, or determined by geodesy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

var. of GEODESIC.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Geodetic Ge`o*det"ic, Geodetical Ge`o*det"ic*al, a. Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers. Geodetic line or curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on any surface between any two points.

Moby Thesaurus

approximative, cartographic, chorographic, estimative, geodesic, geographic, geological, geophysical, hypsographic, locational, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, metric, navigational, numerative, oceanographic, physiographic, positional, quantitative, regional, situal, situational, topographic, valuational, valuative