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OP Just can't hack that flack. Another word caught my eye Geodesy, geodetic. I had general idea
what they meant, but never looked them up until now:
geodesy
n.
5Gr gebdaisia < gc, the earth + daiein, to divide < IE base *da3, da(i)3, to divide > TIDE16 the branch of applied mathematics concerned with measuring, or determining the shape of, the earth or a large part of its surface, or with locating exactly points on its surface
ge[od4e[sist
n.
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