Plumbline
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A plumbline is a string with a lead (Latin
plumbum) weight or plumb-bob
, used to provide a vertical reference line.
It may also refer to:
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
plumbum) weight or plumb-bob
Plumb-bob
A plumb-bob or a plummet is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, that is suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line, or plumb-line....
, used to provide a vertical reference line.
It may also refer to:
- The PlumblineThe PlumblineThe Plumbline is a humor publication of the of McMaster University. Popular among the students of McMaster Engineering, The Plumbline is famous for publishing everything from obscene sexual innuendos to informative articles. The Plumbline was started by a group of Engineering students in 1967,...
, a joke newspaper produced by the McMaster Engineering Society - In geodesyGeodesyGeodesy , also named geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space. Geodesists also study geodynamical phenomena such as crustal...
, a plumbline means a line orthogonal to the geoid