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3341 | month: nodical | The interval of time between two successive passages of the MOON through the same NODE of its ORBIT. The length of the nodical month avera... more |
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3342 | month: sidereal | The interval of time between two successive passages of the MOON past as FIXED STAR. The length of the sidereal month averages 27.321661 m... more |
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3343 | month: synodical | The interval of time between two successive CONJUNCTIONS or OPPOSITIONS of the MOON. The length of the synodical month is 29.5305888 mean SO... more |
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3344 | month: tropical | The average period of REVOLUTION of the MOON about the EARTH with respect to the VERNAL EQUINOX. The length of the tropical month averages ... more |
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3345 | monument | (U.S. terminology). In SURVEYING, a structure used or erected to mark the POSITION of a STATION; permanence is implied. |
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3346 | moon | The SATELLITE of the EARTH. See LIBRATIONS OF MOON and PHASES OF THE MOON. |
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3347 | moonbow | RAINBOW whose formation is the same as that of the ordinary RAINBOW, but whose light comes from the MOON and not from the SUN. Also called l... more |
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3348 | moor | (v.t.). To secure a boat or other floating thing to a fixed object or the seabottom. |
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3349 | mooring | A place where a vessel may be secured. (Usually in pl.) The equipment used to secure a vessel. The process of securing a vessel or oceanogr... more |
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3350 | mooring buoy | See BUOY. |
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3351 | morse code light | See LIGHT. |
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3352 | mosaic | In PHOTOGRAMMETRY, as assembly of AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS whose edges usually have been torn, or cut, and matched to form a continuous photograp... more |
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3353 | mosaic: controlled | A MOSAIC oriented and scaled to horizontal GROUND CONTROL; usually assembled from rectified PHOTOGRAPHS. See also ORTHOPHOTOMOSAIC, UNCONTR... more |
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3354 | most probable value | That value of a quantity which is mathematically determined from a series of observations and is more probably free of the effects of blun... more |
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3355 | mother vessel | The lead vessel when surveying with several vessels. |
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3356 | mount | A large HILL or MOUNTAIN, usually a detached, characteristically conical mass of earth. The term 'mount' is always used instead of MOUNTAI... more |
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3357 | mountain | A natural ELEVATION of the EARTH's surface rising more or less abruptly from the surrounding LEVEL, and attaining an ALTITUDE which, relati... more |
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3358 | mountains | On the seafloor, a well-delineated subdivision of a large and complex positive feature. See CORDILLERA. |
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3359 | mountain chain | A complexity of several MOUNTAIN RANGES. |
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3360 | mountain range | A line of MOUNTAINS. Also referred to as range of mountains. |