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contour map
noun
a topographic map on which the shape of the land surface is shown by contour lines, the relative spacing of the lines indicating the relative slope of the surface.
Origin:
1860–65
1860–65
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| Main Entry: | contour map |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See topographic map |
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Science Dictionary
| contour map
A map that shows elevations above sea level and surface features of the land by means of contour lines. |
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Example sentences
Collected depth data were combined with a shoreline map to create a depth contour map.
The shape of the world pops out easily from laser data because they represent a direct contour map of the surrounding area.
We delineated watershed boundaries, by hand, on the contour map created from the preeruption digital terrain data.
The top of this drawing is a contour map showing the hills that are illustrated at the bottom.
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