chorographn.
/ˈkɔːrəʊɡrɑːf//ɡraf/ An instrument invented by Prof. Wallace, of Edinburgh, to determine the position of a station, having given the angles made by it to three points in the same plane whose positions are known; the problem which is more quickly and roughly solved by the station-pointer.
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1839 W. Wallace Geom. Theorems 134, 153.
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n.1839- you can't have everything
- you can't have your cake and eat it too
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't keep a good man down
- you can't polish a turd
- you can't polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter
- you can't take it with you
- you can't talk!
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't think
- you can't win
- you can't win them all
- you cannot fly with one wing
- you could cut something with a knife
- you could cut with a knife
- you could have fooled me
- you could have heard a pin drop
- you could have heard a pin fall
- you could have knocked me down with a feather
- you could have knocked me etc down with a feather
- you dancer
- you do the math
- you don't happen to
- you don't mean to say
- you don't mean to to tell me