Crossword clues for topography
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topography \To*pog"ra*phy\, n. [F. topographie, Gr. ?; ? a place + ? to write.] The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
Note: Topography, as the description of particular places, is
distinguished from chorography, the description of a
region or a district, and for geography, the
description of the earth or of countries.
--Brande & C.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a precise description of a place 2 a detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object 3 the features themselves (the terrain) 4 the surveying of the features
WordNet
n. the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features
precise detailed study of the surface features of a region
Wikipedia
Topography is the study of the shape and features of the surface of the Earth and other observable astronomical objects including planets, moons, and asteroids. The topography of an area could refer to the surface shapes and features themselves, or a description (especially their depiction in maps).
This field of geoscience and planetary science is concerned with local detail in general, including not only relief but also natural and artificial features, and even local history and culture. This meaning is less common in the United States, where topographic maps with elevation contours have made "topography" synonymous with relief. The older sense of topography as the study of place still has currency in Europe.
Topography in a narrow sense involves the recording of relief or terrain, the three-dimensional quality of the surface, and the identification of specific landforms. This is also known as geomorphometry. In modern usage, this involves generation of elevation data in digital form ( DEM). It is often considered to include the graphic representation of the landform on a map by a variety of techniques, including contour lines, hypsometric tints, and relief shading.
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Usage examples of "topography".
They feed all these numbers into a Cray, and the animal pounds away, megaflops, on a simulation that knows everything about adiabatic cooling, turbulence, vapor pressures, topography, solar radiation.
They wound over the skyscape of Armada, lower than Bellis was used to, rising and sinking with the topography of roofs and rigging.
The belief that the stars were living beings, combining with the fancy of an unscientific time, gave rise to the stellar apotheosis of heroes and legendary names, and was the source of those numerous asterisms, out lined groups of stars, which still bedeck the skies and form the landmarks of celestial topography.
I threw Bult off the computer and set up the map, filling in the two holes with extrapolated topographies before I went back over to the table.
This proved, indeed, to be the case, for soon Balbi found the brickwork yielding so rapidly to his efforts that one morning, a week later, Casanova heard three light taps above his head - the preconcerted signal by which they were to assure themselves that their notions of the topography of the prison were correct.
Tristam stood upon the stairhead looking out over a topography of jumbled white stone and tangled forest.
Void Which Binds, is a multidimensional medium with its own reality and -- as the Core was soon to learn -- its own topography.
Core knew that the topography of the Void Which Binds could be modulated to transmit information instantaneously -- via the fatline -- but that this was a clumsy and destructive use of the medium of Planck space, rather like communicating across a continent by means of artificially produced earthquakes.
Llandden: the Archbishop has graciously consented to spend the night there before going on to Brecknock and I have decided to present him with my work on the Topography of Ireland.
I should say, however, that I find it impossible to reconcile the two accounts of the journeys to Calvary, given in the prose introduction to this work, and in the poetical description that follows it, or rather to understand the topography of the poetical version at all, for the prose account is plain enough.
The effects of these earthquakes were more notable by the alterations in the topography of the region than by the damage done to buildings, as the latter were of wood and thatched with cogon grass.
Unfortunately, these diggings have not been extensive enough to restore the topography of the west and southwest slopes of Colonus Agoraeus.
She pulled up curbside, got out and peered over the monotonous topography - level and tan.
Under the tortured Lycra-blend orange fabric, the topography of monstrous lats, delts, abs and pecs was clearly visible.
For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.