What literally, from the Greek language, means the word geodesy?

drawing a map of the earth
describing the earth
measurement of the earth's surface
division of the earth
The term "geodesic" comes from geodesy, the science of measuring the size and shape of the Earth; in the original sense, a geodesic was the shortest route between two points on the Earth's surface, namely, a segment of a great circle. The term has been generalized to include measurements in much more general mathematical spaces; for example, in graph theory, one might consider a geodesic between two vertices/nodes of a graph.
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