"surveying" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ [General-American], /səˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-surveying.wav [US] Forms: surveyings [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪɪŋ Etymology: survey + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|survey|ing}} survey + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} surveying (countable and uncountable, plural surveyings)
  1. The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: aerial survey Translations (science of accurately determining the position of points): zeměměřičství [neuter] (Czech), zaměřování [neuter] (Czech), geodeesia (Estonian), maanmittaus (Finnish), Vermessung [feminine] (German), földmérés (english: land surveying) (Hungarian), نقشه برداری (Persian), ankietyzacja [feminine] (Polish), agrimensura [feminine] (Portuguese), топосъёмка (toposʺjómka) [feminine] (Russian), межева́ние (meževánije) [neuter] (Russian), geodesia [feminine] (Spanish), lantmäteri [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-surveying-en-noun-TAcR~9Pk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Verb

IPA: /sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ [General-American], /səˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-surveying.wav [US]
Rhymes: -eɪɪŋ Etymology: survey + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|survey|ing}} survey + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} surveying
  1. present participle and gerund of survey Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: survey Related terms: geodesy
    Sense id: en-surveying-en-verb-kqz7iKFr Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 39 61

Inflected forms

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