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Graticule

A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.

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Network 76% connected

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Eyepiece 70% connected

The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object…

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Ocular 70% connected

Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reticle 92% connected

A small net.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reticule 92% connected

A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Acoustic projection noun · 78% connection

the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection…

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Cartography noun · 78% connection

the making of maps and charts

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Coordinate verb · 78% connection

bring into common action, movement, or condition; "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that o…

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"

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Geographic adjective · 78% connection

determined by geography; "the north and south geographic poles"

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Geographic information system noun · 78% connection

information system for geographical information; "This operator was applied to a mobile technology GIS application." - UD_English-GUM…

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Geographical adjective · 78% connection

determined by geography; "the north and south geographic poles"

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GIS noun · 78% connection

information system for geographical information; "This operator was applied to a mobile technology GIS application." - UD_English-GUM…

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Information noun · 78% connection

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"

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Latitude noun · 78% connection

the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself

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Longitude noun · 78% connection

the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich

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Map noun · 78% connection

a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)

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Mapmaking noun · 78% connection

the making of maps and charts

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Bacteria noun · 78% connection

(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: design, draught, been, divided, squares.
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Blast noun · 78% connection

The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the f…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: design, draught, been, divided, squares.
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Breed verb · 78% connection

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

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Check noun · 78% connection

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: design, draught, been, divided, squares.
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Checky adjective · 78% connection

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.

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Compone adjective · 78% connection

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines,…

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Copy noun · 78% connection

To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to c…

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Copyright noun · 78% connection

The legal right to reproduce, publish, and sell the contents of a work.

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Decalcomania noun · 78% connection

either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface

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Design noun · 78% connection

The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan sh…

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Dimension noun · 78% connection

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…

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Dimensive adjective · 78% connection

Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.

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Draught adjective · 78% connection

Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

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Extract noun · 78% connection

A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.

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Fissipara n. pl. · 78% connection

Animals which reproduce by fission.

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Fortieth noun · 78% connection

One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-…

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Fourth noun · 78% connection

One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after th…

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Graphotype noun · 78% connection

A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed u…

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