What is "topographical"

Usage examples of "topographical".

Valleys, lakes, gaps, creeks, and other important, possibly vital, topographical features are routinely left unnamed.

Toxtel sat on the bed, while Goss and Teague took the chairs, i hey spent an hour leaning over the map, with league pointing out topographical details.

It was a bit surreal in the wasteland here in the middle of the night amidst topographical blemishes in the blasted landfill heath.

More than this, the clever Alsatian had slipped a topographical map of the surrounding country between two of the plates in the basket.

Enormous topographical closeups of the various Sovereign Republics, wrinkled mountain ranges, satellite images of rivers, the Black Sea and Crimea, postcards from tourist spots and exotic cities: Samarkand, Bukhara, Vladivostok, Yerevan, Minsk, Kazan, Gorky, Arkhangelsk, even Moscow.

Literary, Artistic, Historical, Topographical, Typographical, and Antiquarian Reminiscences connected with the early Printing and Engraving of Banbury involved that of many other important towns and counties of Great Britain, and also America.

But at Well 24, which was marked Karara Soaks, another track ran eastward into an area that was a topographical blank, and it was here, 40 miles or more beyond the Midway Well that I noticed a faint mark on the paper.

It showed the intensity of radio emissions, plotted like a topographical map.

In each case the Com Guard units had disguised their biding place via some manufactured but realistic topographical construction.

Had Western Texas been settled by people of common honesty, it would, from its topographical situation, have soon become a very important country, as all the mercantile transactions with the north central provinces of Mexico would have been secured to it.

He paused after carrying a load of dive gear from the old Chevy down the tubular bore and looked at Peter Duncan, who sat beside the sinkhole, busily overlaying a transparency of a topographical map onto a hydrographic survey of known underground water systems.

But in her topographical ignorance as a late comer to the place, she misreckoned the distance of her journey as not much more than half what it really was.

Captain Servadac was evidently in no hurry to betake himself to rest, but seating himself at his table, with a pair of compasses and a sheet of tracing-paper, he began to draw, with red and blue crayons, a variety of colored lines, which could hardly be supposed to have much connection with a topographical survey.

Pliers, hammer, staples, small hard-sided case with the last skunk love-scent canister inside and a well-used topographical map.

For the thousandth time, he glanced up, working for want of a clearer memory with the topographical map Marethyn had put up on the wall.