Cross staff is an instrument used for

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• When a staff is sighted through the telescope, a certain length of staff is intercepted by the stadia lines. The staff intercept varies with the distance at which the staff is held.
• While viewing through a level telescope and moving the eye slightly, a relative movement occurs between the image of the levelling staff and the cross hairs. The instrument is
• It is required to find the difference in elevation between two points A and B. During levelling, it is found that the staff reading at B is more than the staff reading at A. It indicates that the point A is
• When the effect of refraction is taken into account in levelling, the true staff reading is obtained by subtracting the correction for refraction from the observed staff reading.
• An open cross-staff is commonly used for setting out
• The adjustable cross-staff is used for setting out an offset
• An optical square is used for the same purpose as the cross-staff, but it is more accurate.
• Which of the following angles can be set out with the help of French cross staff?
• It is possible to set out angles of 0’ to 360’ with help of ……….cross staff.
• It is possible to set out angles 45’ or 90’ with help of ……….cross staff.