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Meaning
noun surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments
noun surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles
originFrom French alidade, from Spanish alidada, from Arabic العِضَادَة (al-ʕiḍāda), perhaps from عَضُد (ʕaḍud, “upper arm”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0