He'd take sightings with compass, goniometer, and plumb bob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

One day, during an interlude of free flight, he strode into the control-room and glanced at the course-plotting goniometer, then started into the "tank.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Galactic Patrol]

MN This is a goniometer or instrument for measuring angles; it was a precision instrument, lightweight and easy to transport, and was used at sea to measure distances by angle and the height of heavenly bodies, which permitted the observer to determine his position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sailing on and on] Reference

An important property of calcite is the great ease with which it may be cleaved in three directions; the three perfect cleavages are parallel to the faces of the primitive rhombohedron, and the angle between them was determined by W.H. Wollaston in 1812, with the aid of his newly invented reflective goniometer, to be 74° 55 '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

As a measure of the high precision achieved by Siegbahn's spectrographs (which are held at a constant temperature and read, in tenths of seconds, by means of two microscopes mounted diametrically opposite one another on a precision goniometer) may be mentioned the fact that his energy-level values, arrived at thirty years ago, still serve for many purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manne Siegbahn - Biography] Reference

Measurements were made with the forearm in a fixed pronated position using a novel specially designed goniometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Depending on the chosen model both the levels of up to eight channels and 5-channel vectorscope / goniometer data are clearly shown on the displays.    From Wordnik.com.  [AME Info Latest News] Reference

There may be a sort of horseback theory of geology; but mineralogy, and the natural sciences generally, must be investigated on foot, hammer or goniometer in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers]

Mineralogy, the goniometer, the constancy of angles and the primary laws of derivation by Romé de Lisle, and next the discovery of types and the mathematical deduction of secondary forms by Haüy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Regime] Reference

Isometric quadriceps and hamstring strength will be measured using a dynamometer; knee range of movement using a goniometer; and physical function will be determined by a modified timed up and go test.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

For the optical industry MOELLER-WEDEL OPTICAL GmbH offers interferometers for shape testing, goniometers, goniometer-spectrometers, visual and electronic autocollimators, collimators, testing telescopes, diopter telescopes, and measuring devices for single lenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [optics.org all content] Reference

Under his right and left hands were the double-series potentiometers actuating the variable-speed drives of the flight-angle directors in the hour and declination ranges; before his eyes was the finely marked micrometer screen upon which the guiding goniometer threw its needle-point of light; powerful optical systems of prisms and lenses revealed to his sight the director-angles, down to fractional seconds of arc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference

A goniometer, and Dr. Wollaston, who often dined with us, taught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference

All set to go, "the computer stated, as he changed, by fractions of arc, the course-plotters of the automatic integrating goniometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference

"I'll bet you a small farm against a plugged nickel that right now he's working his goniometer so hard that it's pivots are getting hot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference

A sort of horseback theory of geology; but mineralogy, and the natural sciences generally, must be investigated on foot, hammer or goniometer in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

He gestured at the goniometer in Pytheas 'hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

A goniometer for the marking out proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance] Reference