Traverse

[Monte Davis]

> part of a WWI trench is called a traverse:
 
A traverse is also a basic operation in surveying-- a series of
length/angle/elevation measurements, starting from a known point, to
establish the position of new ones. Surveying cropped up half a dozen times
even before M&D. 
 
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