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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Geodetic \Ge`o*det"ic\, Geodetical \Ge`o*det"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as geodetic surveying; geodetic observers. {Geodetic line} or {curve}, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on any surface between any two points. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: geodetic adj : of or relating to or determined by geodesy [syn: {geodesic}, {geodesical}]
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