Land Referencing Standard
Glossary of technical terms
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The SoLR Land Referencing Glossary of Technical Terms brings together terminology used across the profession, including specialist expressions, abbreviations and commonly used jargon. It is intended as an advisory resource and is not legally definitive or exhaustive. Entries may be updated as professional practice develops.
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greyscale
A series of shades of grey used to distinguish between parcels and plots. (Guthrie first conjectured the Four Colour Theorem that postulates that all parts of a map in plane may be shaded or coloured using only four shades or colours such that no part sharing a common boundary, other than at a single point, are adjacent)
Updated: 01/10/2026