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"text": "[…] I have placed myself in communication with the Astronomer Royal, for the purpose of considering the steps necessary to be taken to effect the connexion required, between the triangulation of Great Britain and that of Belgium. […] I have also placed myself in communication with General Nerenburger, Director of the Dêpot de la Guerre at Brussels, and have received from him the diagram of the Belgian triangulation, with descriptions of the stations with which it is necessary to connect our triangulation, and we possess a copy of the triangulation of France.",
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"text": "[page 76] At this point, it may be useful to refer to a word that has been used in connection with earlier examples. The King has been said to indulge in a process called Triangulation. The word is harder than the idea. The basic fact is that the King can move to an adjacent square in one move, two moves or three moves, without returning to its point of origin. […] [page 77] This diagram […] shows a position where the triangulation is vital.",
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"ref": "1958 November–December, “News Notes: Army Weather Radar Tracks Nuclear Clouds”, in William H. Zierdt Jr., editor, Armor: The Magazine of Mobile Warfare, volume LXVII, number 6, Washington, D.C.: United States Armor Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58, column 2",
"text": "A special advantage of radar is that it works during darkness and other periods of low visibility, which prevent visual triangulation and aircraft techniques for measuring nuclear clouds.",
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"A process by which an unknown location is found using three known distances from known locations."
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[
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[
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"ref": "2004, Stanley A[llen] Renshon, “The Politics of Transformation”, in In His Father’s Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan; paperback edition, New York, N.Y., Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, November 2005, section V (A Transforming President in Perspective), page 197",
"text": "Triangulation was a presidential leadership strategy that presented the president as having borrowed elements of both the right and the left to develop some form of center policy amalgam.",
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},
{
"ref": "2015, Tamar W. Carroll, “It Saved My Life: Creating Queer Politics”, in Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, page 181",
"text": "Increased security for women's health clinics was part of [Bill] Clinton's \"third way,\" a politics of triangulation that moved the Democratic Party closer to the right and embraced neoliberal economic policies while offering comparatively moderate social positions.",
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"ref": "1999, Carol Grbich, “Qualitative Research: An Introduction”, in Qualitative Research in Health: An Introduction, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, part 1 (Theory and Design), pages 17–18",
"text": "One recent attempt to combine both forms of data collection […] was based on a parallel methods approach, in which the results of two similar but separately located studies were triangulated. Triangulation entails overlapping the results at several points to enhance reliability. […] Other documented research has attempted to gain a broader view through the triangulation of two sets of data (quantitative and qualitative) on the same question, taken from the same respondents in a single study.",
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{
"ref": "2003 December 1, Nahid Golafshani, “Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research”, in The Qualitative Report, volume 8, number 4, page 603",
"text": "Even though triangulation is used in quantitative paradigm for confirmation and generalization of a research, Barbour (1998) does not disregard the notion of triangulation in qualitative paradigm and she states the need to define triangulation from a qualitative research's perspective in each paradigm. For example, in using triangulation of several data sources in quantitative research, any exception may lead to a disconfirmation of the hypothesis where exceptions in qualitative research are dealt to modify the theories and are fruitful.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2014, Alexander Cárdenas, “Introduction”, in Football: Origins, Paths and New Dimensions: Master’s Thesis, [Munich]: GRIN Verlag, section 1.2 (Research Methods), page 4",
"text": "Multiple sources of data were used to create a triangulation of evidence: books, documentation, archival records and relevant publications by key actors, particularly in the development field, open ended interviews, participant-observation conducted during field work and a case study. […] Triangulation was initially conceptualized as a strategy to validating results achieved with individual research methods. The focus of this research strategy, however, has increasingly shifted towards enriching and complementing knowledge and towards expanding and furthering the potential of individual methods.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "triangulacija",
"sense": "surveying technique",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "surveying technique",
"word": "三角測量"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "sānjiǎo cèliáng",
"sense": "surveying technique",
"word": "三角测量"
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"sense": "surveying technique",
"word": "kolmiomittaus"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "surveying technique",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "surveying technique",
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"masculine"
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"word": "háromszögelés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "surveying technique",
"word": "trianguláció"
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{
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"sense": "surveying technique",
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"feminine"
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{
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"sense": "surveying technique",
"word": "三角測量"
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"sense": "surveying technique",
"word": "триангуляция"
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"feminine",
"masculine"
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"sense": "surveying technique",
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"sense": "surveying technique",
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"feminine"
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"code": "gd",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "surveying technique",
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "surveying technique",
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