Definitions For Geoid

Noun

GEOID (plural GEOIDs) (geography, geodesy) The shape that the surface of the oceans of the earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, extending also through the continents, disregarding other factor#noun, factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation.

Related terms

geoidal

Translations

Albanian: gjeoidi Arabic: مجسم أرضي Armenian: գեոիդ Asturian: xeoide Belarusian: геоід Bulgarian: геоид Catalan: geoide Chinese: : Mandarin: 大地水准面 Czech: geoid Danish: geoide Dutch: geoïde Esperanto: geoido Estonian: geoid Finnish: geoidi, geoidipinta French: géoïde, m Galician: xeoide Georgian: გეოიდი German: Geoid Greek: γεωειδές, n Hebrew: גאואיד Hungarian: geoid Icelandic: jarðsporvala, f Ido: geoido Indonesian: geoid Italian: geoide Japanese: ジオイド Kazakh: геоид Korean: 지오이드 Luxembourgish: geoid Norwegian: geoide : Nynorsk: geoide Persian: زمین‌واره Polish: geoida Portuguese: geoide Romanian: geoid Russian: гео́ид, m Serbo-Croatian: geoid Slovak: geoid Slovene: geoid Spanish: geoide Swedish: geoid Thai: จีออยด์ Turkish: geoit Ukrainian: геоїд Uzbek: geoid Vietnamese: geoid

See also

ellipsoid

Etymology

(the {{w, WGS84}} reference ellipsoid) of the earth. The red areas are higher and the blue areas lower than the idealized ellipsoid.]] From {{der, en, de, Geoid, , geoid}}, analysable as {{confix, en, geo, oid}}.

Anagrams

Diego, diego, dogie