Associations to the word «Graticule»

Wiktionary

GRATICULE, noun. A grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
GRATICULE, noun. (specifically) (optics) (British) Synonym for reticle
GRATICULE, noun. (specifically) (geography) The network of lines of latitude and longitude that make a up a coordinate system such as the one used on the Earth.
GRATICULE, noun. A nearly square or nearly rectangular region created by a graticule.

Dictionary definition

GRATICULE, noun. A network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope