hydrographer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a specialist who surveys, measures, and charts oceans, rivers, coasts, and other bodies of water, especially for navigation

   The hydrographer recorded the channel depths before revising the nautical chart.

Formed from hydrography + -er. Hydrography combines Greek hydor, 'water,' with -graphia, 'writing or description,' and came to mean the measurement and charting of waters. A hydrographer is the person who performs that work.

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