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• GEOID (from Gr. yij, the earth)

GEOID (from Gr. yij, the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth)  , an imaginary See also:

• SURFACE

surface employed by geodesists which has the See also:

• PROPERTY

property that every See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element of it is perpendicular to the plumb-See also:

• LINE

line where that line cuts it . Compared with the " See also:

• SPHEROID (Gr. c4aipa-etbis, like a sphere)

spheroid of reference " the surface of the See also:

• GEOID (from Gr. yij, the earth)

geoid is in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general depressed over the oceans and raised over the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• LAND

land masses . (See See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

EARTH, FIGURE OF THE.) GEOK-TEPE, a former fortress of the Turkomans, in See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian Transcaspia, in the See also:

• OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by Herodotus to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

oasis of Akhal-tekke, on the Transcaspian railway, 28 m . N.W. of See also:

• ASKABAD, or ASKHABAD

Askabad . It consisted of a walled enclosure in See also:

• CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit, the See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall being 18 ft. high and 20 to 30 ft. thick . In See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December r88o the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place was attacked by 6000 Russians under General Skobelev, and after a See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of twenty-three days was carried by See also:

• STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger. Sturm; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
• STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

storm, although the defenders numbered 25,000 . A See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument and a small museum com- memorate the event .