About The Word Contour
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Contour
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What's The Definition Of Contour?
[n] any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes through the smoke"
[n] a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height [v] form the contours of Synonyms | Synonyms for Contour: configuration | conformation | contour line | form | shape Related Terms | Find terms related to Contour: broad lines | configuration | delineate | delineation | features | figuration | figure | framework | galbe | gestalt | limn | line | lineaments | lineation | lines | main features | outline | profile | relief | shapes | silhouette | skeleton | tournure See Also | angularity | bluntness | concaveness | concavity | convexity | convexness | crookedness | curvature | curve | delineate | dullness | dulness | keenness | limn | line | lobularity | narrowing | outline | roundness | sharpness | spatial property | spatiality | straightness | stratification | streamline | thalweg | topography Contour In Webster's Dictionary \Con*tour"\, n. [F. contour, fr. contourner to mark the
outlines; con- + tourner to turn. See {Turn}.]
1. The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines
representing such an outline; the line that bounds;
periphery.
Titian's coloring and contours. --A. Drummond.
2. (Mil.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground,
or of works of fortification.
{Contour feathers} (Zo["o]l.), those feathers that form the
general covering of a bird.
{Contour of ground} (Surv.), the outline of the surface of
ground with respect to its undulation, etc.
{Contour line} (Topographical Suv.), the line in which a
horizontal plane intersects a portion of ground, or the
corresponding line in a map or chart.
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