What is "topographic"

Usage examples of "topographic".

She squeezes past Clarke into the cubby and checks the topographic display.

Undulating, mortarless flagstone walls of varying heights supported a series of planting beds that radiated away from the curving center walk like the lines on a topographic map.

Boss had picked up a pointer and now tapped with it in the midst of Tawantinsuyu, near Cuzco, where the Andean highlands rose in a central topographic node.

When I was a hundred meters above the tower, I set the direction -- the pen-light clamped in my teeth illuminating the inertial compass, lining up the mat along that invisible line, checking it against the topographic map the old poet had given me -- and held the palm of my hand on the acceleration pattern.

A topographic photomap of a large section of Pandro was projected by the main viewscreen forward.

Distantly, beyond the swamp, he could see the highlands that Captain Waxman had shown him on the topographic map: a series of red cliff faces, broken with jungle-choked chasms and separated into tall forest-crowned mesas.

If the brain is to interpret images arriving at the retina of the eye, these pathways, with their compressions and expansions, have to be organized in an orderly manner - and indeed it can be shown that there is a precise topographic mapping of the retina onto the neurons of the lateral geniculate and a further mapping of these cells onto those of the visual cortex.

It will be interesting to see if the native’s explanation solves any of the topographic puzzles that have been bedeviling them.

MOLA has been able to provide detailed topographic information about individual features such as impact craters, volcanoes, fractures, channels, and polar deposits.