What's the difference between geodesic and geodesy?
Geodesic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Geodesical
(n.) A geodetic line or curve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(2) It is possible that the outer layer is a smooth geodesic shell.
(3) On teleological grounds alone, it would appear that ocular versions and rotations take place, in many cases, along geodesics of least energy and that paths of higher energy are only taken for reasons of binocular near vision.
(4) UK designer Phil Pauley has updated Fuller's geodesic concept: a ring of spherical modules, his SubBiosphere2 would float in fair weather, then submerge whenever the seas became rough.
(5) It’s a humble affair, a large geodesic dome with a wooden floor, decorated with paintings and drawings that have been made by the inhabitants of the camp.
(6) One is Buckminster Fuller ’s famed geodesic dome: though the acrylic cover burned off in a fire in 1976, the former United States pavilion is now the Montreal Biosphere , a museum devoted to the environment.
(7) There is the rippling curtain wall of the Hall of Science , and the geodesic dome of the Winston Churchill pavilion , now repurposed as an aviary for the local zoo.
(8) Seville’s Expo 92 was one of the largest ever at the time, sprawling across 215 hectares dotted with geodesic domes and snaking monorails, at a cost of almost €10bn.
(9) while the other side of the fence was home to geodesic domes, marquees and ridge tents, all functionally decorated with solar cells, LED string and the occasional antenna.
(10) Based on our findings, we conclude that PAs, which resemble geodesic domes, do not take an active part in near-point accommodation; but like SFs, may serve to resist overextension by internal pressure of the fiber mass or by zonular tension.
(11) The deviation of geodesics (which are perceptually "straight") from physically straight lines may offer an explanation to the perceptual distortion of angular relationships such as the Hering illusion.
(12) In the kitchen and herb gardens you can buy salad and vegetables for your tea before wandering on to the fern garden with its geodesic dome (one of the largest collections in Scotland), the shady rhododendron dell, tranquil Japanese garden and, in front of the elegant whitewashed house, a giant sundial, over 10 metres in diameter.
(13) In the perceptual reconstruction process these parameters assume positive or negative values, and this equivocation is related to a form of the adjacency principle involving central projections and "perceptual geodesics".
(14) Trajectories impinging on such basins may be captured; repeated capture will warp the trajectory toward a geodesic, a process called conditioning.
(15) They surrounded main cell body, looking like a headband, or were occasionally situated over nuclei, looking like a geodesic dome.
(16) I’ve got a plan to help.” He launched an online thinktank called A Better San Francisco and as recently as June he announced “a new civic solution that can forever change how homelessness is perceived in America”, adding: “A Better SF is building community transition centres, the perfect solution for the majority of those experiencing homelessness.” Artists’ impressions and accompanying text detailed proposed mini-villages of geodesic domes providing individual bedrooms, and larger group domes for showers, computers, movies and cooking.
(17) So does Charles Norrie, whose brother Tony, a geodesic surveyor, was working in Congo when he boarded the fatal UTA flight.
(18) In mature (stage-VI) oocytes, the cytokeratin filaments of the vegetal region form a unique, almost geodesic network; in the animal region, cytokeratin organization appears much more variable and irregular.
(19) I propose a number of forms for a geodesic constraint and present psychophysical evidence from a contour-labeling experiment that the human visual system implicitly incorporates a geodesic constraint in the processing of reflectance contours.
(20) Keratin patches consistently appear as linear and discontinuous white streaks arranged along geodesic lines.
Geodesy
Definition:
(n.) That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Rizos, a professor of geodesy and navigation at the University of New South Wales, said that he believed it was unlikely the images were of a plane.
(2) Determining this to an accuracy of about 10 centimetres in 730km is required – and, apparently, is possible by geodesy.
(3) Here’s an explanation as to how the process could have worked from Chris Rizos, a professor of geodesy and navigation at the University of New South Wales: DigitalGlobe have several satellites and they have the highest accuracy in terms of pixels of any commercial satellite imaging system.