Word Finder - contours

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An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.

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the low drag contour of a modern automobile

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A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.

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• contour line

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A speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.

The hills are shown by contours at intervals of 10 or loo ft.

Their present contours are wholly the result of wind action.

The Mississippi river is skirted throughout the length of the state by contours of 400 to 600 ft.

At the same time it cannot be denied that these maps, unless the contours are inserted at short intervals, lack graphic expression.

The hachured hills are based upon contours, and are of admirable commensurability.

The hills are shown in brown contours at intervals of io m.

The hills are hachured and in some instances contours at intervals of 50 metres are introduced.

The features of the ground on most of these maps are shown by contours at intervals of 10 metres.

They are printed in three colours, contours at intervals of 10 and 20 metres being in brown, incidental features (ravines, cliffs, glaciers) in black or blue.

The fields are small and composed of terraces by which the soil has been walled up along the contours of the hills, with enormous labour, to save it from being washed away.

Lehmann (1783) who based his method of hill-shading or hachuring upon these horizontal contours.

Even though the hill hachures on the older one-inch maps are not quite satisfactory, this deficiency is in a large measure compensated for by the presence of absolutely trustworthy contours.

Northwest, towards the Transvaal, the mountains are of lower elevation and more rounded contours.

But almost everywhere the vegetation serves to smooth the contours of the rugged hills, ferns, mosses and shrubs growing wherever their roots can cling, and leaving only the steepest crags uncovered to form, as in Tahiti, a striking contrast.

Some of the flows are still so young as to preserve their scoriaceous surface; here the shore-line of the lava contours evenly around the spurs and enters, bay-like, into the valleys of the enclosing mountains, occasionally isolating an outlying mass.

Where, on the other hand, the rock decays with smaller debris, the hills assume smoother contours, as in the slate hills running from the Kyles of Bute to Loch Lomond.

Hence their line of trend, which like that of all the other strata is in a north-easterly direction, may be traced from hill to hill by their more craggy contours.

The subdued colour and soft contours of pewter render it once more a favoured material, peculiarly adapted to the methods of the art revival, and perhaps destined to supersede electro-plate for household purposes.

They would have found on the island, which is probably referred to under the name "Terraces of Incense" (from its step-like contours), the precious "auta trees" - whose divine dew, for use in the service of their gods, was their special quest - in greater abundance and in a larger number of species than any other country.

The flame-like P u t the matter in another processes and outliers are composed of way, if we could imagine writhing filaments, and the contours all the living cells of a are continually changing while the large oak or of a horse, colony moves as a whole.

In addition to the bareMinerals makeup, the company offers a companion line of quality makeup brushes, designed to distribute the minerals evenly over your skin, and its contours.

To sum up, then, while the main structural features of Ireland were impressed upon her before the opening of the Mesozoic era, her present outline and superficial contours date from an epoch of climatic and geographical change which falls within the human period.

In the fork of the North and South Platte are the Wild Cat Mountains with contours rising to 53 00 ft., in which Wild Cat Mountain, long reported as the highest point in the state, attains 5038 ft., Hogback Mountain 5082 ft., and various other hills - Gabe Rock (5006), Big Horn Mountain (4718), Coliseum Rock (5050), Scotts Bluff (4662) &c. - rise to heights of 45 00 to 5000 ft.

This theory, however, is not universally accepted, some authorities preferring to assume a succession of more strictly local elevations and depressions, connected with the recent volcanic activity of the Jaulan and Lija districts on the east bank, which brought the contours finally to their actual form.

Many authors would liken the rolling sugar fields around Bridgetown to the undulating contours of Dorset or the Cotswolds.

Look for topographic association by overlaying contours or shaded relief.

Or changes in textures have been used by Albrecht Dürer to create illusory contours in his etchings such as Rhinoceros.

It can help you to regain your youthful facial features and clear complexion, tighten your facial contours and reduce sagging.

Rules specify how these elementary pitch movements can be combined to create intonation contours for entire messages.

Generating f0 contours for speech synthesis using the tilt intonation theory.

The contours so obtained showed a peak in n i at, or slightly South of, the geomagnetic equator.

The 18-hole, 6442 yard, par 71 course uses the natural contours to create undulating fairways.

Just relax and unwind among its inviting contours and snug cushions, and rest your worn out feet on the fantastic matching footstool.

Tho the work follows the general contours of innumerable previous settings of the Latin Mass, at every turn Patterson subverts the genre.

Use the mapping tools to create landmasses, rivers, and color contours.

The inner and outer contours of the cement mantles was traced from CT scans and the thickness and cross-sectional area determined.

The default value of 1.0 causes IDL to draw the contours completely opaque.

The green itself is a large tabletop whose contours can easily outwit average golfers like us.

Elegant costumes designed by Elizabeth King echoed the soothing contours of this exceptionally pleasing piece.

The main reason why these skid plates are so successful is down to the design of the lip that contours round the skid plate.

Within the red trimmed contours, an image of a warrior appears, reminiscent of Japanese woodcuts.

The general contours exemplify the law of geographers in regard to continents, viz.

They not only indicate the height of the land, but also enable us to compute the declivity of the mountain slopes; and if minor features of ground lying between two contours - such as ravines, as also rocky precipices and glaciers - are indicated, as is done on the Siegfried atlas of Switzerland, they fully meet the requirements of the scientific man, the engineer and the mountain-climber.

Given the area A of the plane between the two horizontal contours, the height h of the upper above the lower contour, the length of the upper contour 1, and the area of the face presented by the edge of the upper stratum l.h = A 1, the slope a is found to be tan a = h.l I (A - A i); hence its superficies, A = A2 sec a.

By following the contours along the sidewalls of each Bootsuit the Bootbox can be fitted at any convenient location.

From the first application, it smoothes skin and refines and tones facial contours to promote radiant, more youthful looking features.

Temp contours are depicted through a vertical section passing through 3 cars.

When you ask yourself "Should I buy a memory foam or latex matress", you've probably already experienced uncomfortable sleeping or strange contours when lying in bed.

Tempur-Pedic offers high-density memory foam that contours directly to your body.

Respond only to your needs.Be sure to choose a mattress that can adequately support the contours of your body.