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2. Tripod (surveying) - Wikipedia

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   A surveyor's tripod with a shoulder strap. The head of the tripod supports the instrument while the feet are spiked to anchor the tripod to the ground. A surveyor's tripod is a device used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits.

3. Level (optical instrument) - Wikipedia

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   This reduces the need to set the instrument base truly level, as with a dumpy level. Self-levelling instruments are the preferred instrument on building sites, construction, and during surveying due to ease of use and rapid setup time. A digital electronic level is also set level on a tripod and reads a bar-coded staff using electronic laser ...

4. List of surveying instruments - Wikipedia

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   Instruments used in surveying include: Alidade; Alidade table; Cosmolabe; Dioptra; Dumpy level; Engineer's chain; Geodimeter; Graphometer; Groma (surveying) Laser scanning; Level; Level staff; Measuring tape; Plane table; Pole (surveying) Prism (surveying) (corner cube retroreflector) Prismatic compass (angle measurement) Ramsden surveying ...

5. Circumferentor - Wikipedia

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   Drawing of a circumferentor from the Cyclopaedia Circumferentor with Gunter's chain at Campus Martius Museum in Marietta, Ohio. A circumferentor, or surveyor's compass, is an instrument used in surveying to measure horizontal angles. It was superseded by the theodolite in the early 19th century. [1]

6. Tripod - Wikipedia

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   A tripod is a portable three-legged frame or stand, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. The three-legged (triangular stance) design provides good stability against gravitational loads as well as horizontal shear forces , and better leverage for resisting tipping over due to lateral ...

7. Simone Biles Says It Would Be 'Greedy' to Return to the ... - AOL

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   Just after winning a gold medal in the individual vault final in Paris on Aug. 3, Biles spoke during a press conference about the future of her signature vault. "This is my last, definitely ...

8. Travis Kelce receives most fan votes for 2025 Pro Bowl - AOL

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   Despite a rather subpar season by his own standards, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce still managed to receive the most votes for the 2025 Pro Bowl.

9. Jacob's staff - Wikipedia

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   In navigation the instrument is also called a cross-staff and was used to determine angles, for instance the angle between the horizon and Polaris or the sun to determine a vessel's latitude, or the angle between the top and bottom of an object to determine the distance to said object if its height is known, or the height of the object if its distance is known, or the horizontal angle between ...