A line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height.
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Examples for "contour "
1 Conclusions: The contour plots presented in this article complement the AKIN definition.
2 The general contour is round, from three to four inches in diameter.
3 This contour is a way of really expressing the subtleties of shape.
4 I love a good contour just as much as the next person.
5 Regional wall motion was examined by means of isometric and contour plots.
1 A single contour line was interrupted by a printed number in microscopic type.
2 Who gave the 1,000 feet contour line that arbitrary nomenclature is unknown.
3 It could be outflanked only at its extreme eastern point, where the valley rises to the hundred-foot contour line .
4 All along the contour line at the bottom of the valley between hills, the stones had been scraped clean.
5 The scenery is quietly pleasant, the hills away to the southwest exceeding, here and there, the 500 feet contour line .
6 A week after the Liberation began, they left the barn, tramping along the melted contour line which McPhee still insisted was the road.
7 Cliff and rock are shown grey, while glacier contour lines are blue.
8 Contour lines create a feeling of unison with the exterior design.
9 He traced his finger along what would have been contour lines or something.
10 He saw a cluster of contour lines and thought, I gotta check that out!
11 They went back to the topographical map and looked closely at the contour lines .
12 On a chart, that was just data and contour lines .
13 An X had been placed in the center of a wavy circle of contour lines .
14 Persons sending maps of their land, with contour lines , (see Fig.
15 There was a slight vibration, and then yellow contour lines traced across the computer screen.
16 The gradients are clearly shown by contour lines .
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