Topographic map depicting the three-dimensional shape of the earth's surface (its relief) in a two-dimensional representation.
A map having contour lines through points of equal elevation.
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Examples for "contour map"
Examples for "contour map"
1A contour map plan of a very rough piece of ground is shown in Fig.
2He was a thin little man with a face as wrinkled as a contour map of South America.
3ISeg generates an isolabel- contour map for an image by multilevel thresholding with a fine partition of the intensity range.
4A contour map in colours such as Bartholomew's "half inch" is a great help in this matter.
5Another picture flashed on the screen; it looked like a contour map, though it showed magnetic intensity, not heights above sea level.
1The similarity is quite apparent in the relief map opposite page 41.
2Here is a relief map of the continent on which we live.
3Tom put on his shirt, which was wrinkled as a relief map.
4One, bearing a relief map of Pax Tharkas, was slightly ajar.
5Inside the race-track at Guatemala City is a relief map of the entire country.
6The whole globe was a carefully chiseled relief map, showing seas, mountains, and continents.
7Her face was a relief map; all ridges and valleys.
8He leaned forward until his face was a relief map of dark and light.
9There was only a sliding relief map far below to guide him in his triumphant flight.
10But the relief map must be ready quickly.
11He was a compressed landscape, a relief map.
12Such is a relief map of Juja proper.
13The downtown area was spread out below him like a relief map, and it seemed totally deserted.
14The buzzards sailing aloft looked down on the Humboldt Sink as we would look upon a relief map.
15Her hair was quite white like spun glass, and her waxen face was wrinkled like a relief map.
16Ugly, angry lines, purple and red, tore across her skin, raised up as though on a relief map.
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