GIS Dictionary

[database structures] A commercial RDBMS.

[symbology] A graphic used to represent a geographic feature or class of features. Symbols can look like what they represent

[defense] A 15-character identifier that provides the information necessary to display or transmit a tactical symbol between MIL-STD-2525B compliant systems.

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, a setting that determines the drawing order of features based on their symbol. When symbols have

[symbology] A collection of symbols.

[ESRI software] In MOLE, a defined area in which optional text or graphics may be entered to provide additional information

[symbology] The process of devising a set of marks of appropriate size, color, shape, and pattern, and assigning them to

The set of conventions, rules, or encoding systems that define how geographic features are represented with symbols on a map.

1 [ESRI software] In geodatabase editing, the process of applying changes made from a replica to the relative replica in

1 [ESRI software] In geodatabase editing, the geodatabase version that receives changes during synchronization. The synchronization version is always a

1 [physics] Occurring together, or at the same time. 2 [data transfer] In data transmission, precisely timed and steady transmission