The Numbers or letters used to represent responses in a survey instrument like a diary. Coding the responses allows computers to manipulate the data.

在调查中(如：日记)用于代表回复的数字或字母。为答案设置代码可以使计算机进行数据处理。

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Though she spent much of the time with her nose in one-inch Ordnance Survey maps, tracking the contour lines, she found them a “coarse instrument” for her purpose.

虽然她皓首穷经地埋首于英国四十万分之一比例尺的全国地形测量地图，追寻每一条等高线，对她的研究目标来说，她仍觉得这份地图算是「粗糙的工具」。

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This paper mainly presents a new survey method for volumetric calibration of vertical cylindrical tanks by using total station instrument without prism.

本文主要研究了如何利用先进的免棱镜全站仪对立式金属油罐容积进行测量的方法。

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Mapping the modern distribution of these superclusters is one of the tasks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (another foundation-funded instrument, based in New Mexico), which is scanning a quarter of the sky in unprecedented detail.

ECONOMIST: Telescopes are getting bigger, better and less tangible