triangulator
- noun
- /traɪˈæŋɡjʊˌleɪtər/
- Specialized
:
triangulador
- With the help of a triangulator, the team was able to determine their precise location in the dense forest.
Examples
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The surveyor used the triangulator to accurately measure the distance between the two hills.
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During the expedition, they relied on a triangulator to find the optimal route through the mountains.
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We were not the first ones here: awaiting us was the station the strongest and most brilliant of the triangulators built last season.
Fiction book (1999) -
K2, the triangulators have calculated at over 28,000 feet: imagine, the second highest mountain in the world, and I have seen it!
Fiction book (1999) -
In Srinagar, once the crowd of officers and triangulators left for Dehra Dun, he felt even worse.
Fiction book (1999) -
The triangulators leap from peak to peak; if they are the grasshoppers, we plane-tablers are the ants.
Fiction book (1999) -
I am told it is his habit to tour the mountains from April until October, inspecting the many small parties of triangulators and plane-tablers, of which we are only one.
Fiction book (1999) -
My companions and I see the results of the triangulators' hard work when we follow them to the level platforms they've exposed by digging through feet of snow, and the supporting pillars they've constructed from rocks.
Fiction book (1999) -
On the journey back to Srinagar, among the triangulators and plane-tablers led by Michaels and eventually joined by Captain Montgomerie himself, he was silent, sullen, and distant.
Fiction book (1999) -
Into Srinagar march triangulators in fresh, tidy clothes, newly trained Indian assistants, new crowds of porters bearing glittering instruments, and the officers: Michaels among them.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
20
3.7
A tool that finds and shows the place of a person or thing
4
9.5
A tool for measuring the angle between two visible objects to find a ship's position
2
5.7
A tool that measures how far away an object is using a laser
How Accurate
- Specialized
- Specialized
1
9.9
- Specialized
1
5.1
- Specialized
- Specialized
20
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
triangulator = triangulate (transparent) = triangle + ate + or
Formed by adding the agent/instrument suffix '-or' to 'triangulate' (which itself derives from 'triangle' + '-ate'), so the relation to the base verb is direct and compositional.
Etymology
Triangulator comes from tri- 'three' and angle, like triangle, plus -ator meaning 'a tool' or 'one who'. A triangulator used for measuring finds distances and locations by making triangles between known points, which is why the name fits.