survey
The act of surveying; a general view.
Other meanings
A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
“A survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.”
The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
Related words
- geosurvey
- intersurvey
- microsurvey
- minisurvey
- missurvey
- nonsurvey
- photosurvey
- postsurvey
- presurvey
- resurvey
- serosurvey
- surveylike
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "videre".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “survey” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.