(cartography) A particular kind of instrument used by surveyors in mapmaking.

To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. / To come face to face with someone by arrangement. / To get acquainted with someone.

Resistant to robbery.

(grammar) The part of a syntactic tree above the inflectional phrase(s) (expressing tense, aspect, and/or mood), where topic, focus, illocutionary force, etc. are expressed.