Groma (surveying)
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For other uses, see Groma.
The groma (as standardized in the imperial Latin, sometimes croma, or gruma in the literature of the republican times)[1] was a surveying instrument used in the Roman Empire.[2] The groma allowed projecting right angles and straight lines and thus enabling the centuriation (setting up of a rectangular grid). It is the only Roman surveying tool with examples that made it through to the present day.[3]