[f. Gr. χώρα or χῶρος place, spot + -γραφ-ος: see next.] An instrument invented by Prof. Wallace, of Edinburgh, to determine the position of a station, having given the angles made by it to three points in the same plane whose positions are known; the problem which is more quickly and roughly solved by the Station-pointer.
1839. W. Wallace, Geom. Theorems, 134, 153.
