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Topographic

Definition: Topographic

Topographic

Adjective

1. Concerned with topography; "a topographical engineer"; "a topographical survey"; "topographic maps".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Topographic

DomainDefinition

Science

Of or having to do with topography or the physical features of a place. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Topographic

Synonym: topographical (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Topographic

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Measurement

Geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Topographic

Specialty definitions using "topographic": Beaman stadia arc, Brunton compassContour linesdrain tunnel, Drainage Divideform contourgeochemical mapping, geomorphological maphachure map, humideinverted relief, isostatic correctionmap of phenomena, Microscopy, Atomic ForceNAD27, NATIONAL ATLAS, NATIONAL MAP ACCURACY STANDARDS, Nettleton methodold icePHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEER, PHOTOGRAMMETRIST, planimetric mapserrate texture, SHADED RELIEF, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, supraliminal tonal audiometry, surficial features maptopographic mapUniversal soil loss equationWatershed Area. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Topographic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aviation Topographic Atlas: Continental U.S., Bahamas and Baja (reference)

  • High Ground II: Hiking Appalachian Topographic Culture (reference)

  • Interpretation of Landforms from Topographic Maps and Air Photographs: A Laboratory Manual (reference)

  • New Mexico Topographic & Recreation Map (reference)

  • Topographic Map of Yosemite National Park and Vicinity (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Topographic

Illustrations:
Topographic

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Photo Album: Topographic

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Topographic Map of Mars (Sinusoidal Projection). Credit: NASA.

VRML Topographic Map Generator by Dave Pape. Credit: NASA.

Point Reyes, California Survey by Aid James S. Lawson, 1852-1853 Topographic Survey T-403. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cape Flattery and Neah Bay, Oregon Territory Survey by Aid James S. Lawson, 1852 Topographic Survey T-386. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Santa Barbara Island, California Surveyed by Assistant A. W. Chase, 1871 Topographic Survey T-1180. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

San Miguel Island, Channel Islands, California Surveyed by Assistant Stehman Forney, 1871 Topographic Survey T-1242. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

East end of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands, California Surveyed by Assistant Stehman Forney, 1872-1873 Topographic Survey T-1326. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

San Nicholas Island, California Surveyed by Assistant Stehman Forney, 1879 Topographic Survey T-1523. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Filipino padre watching topographic work Crew off of FATHOMER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tower at Station Mangal Topographic party working on the beach. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Topographic

"Topographic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Topographic" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)98%4948,677
Noun (proper)2%1339,140
                    Total100.00%50N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Topographic

Expressions using "topographic": aeronautical topographic chart topographic base Topographic chart topographic point. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "topographic": non-topographic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Topographic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

topographic map

887

arizona topographic map

7

free map topographic

78

montana topographic map

7

topographic

73

utah topographic map

6

usgs topographic map

35

pennsylvania topographic map

6

canada map topographic

22

michigan topographic map

6

online topographic map

17

topographic map of ohio

6

map ontario topographic

17

oregon topographic map

6

canadian map topographic

13

profile topographic

5

map topographic usa

13

map topographic world

5

free map online topographic

12

minnesota topographic map

5

colorado topographic map

12

topographic map of idaho

5

california topographic map

12

alaska topographic map

5

us topographic map

11

virginia topographic map

5

mexico topographic map

10

topographic mapping

4

map state topographic united

9

map read topographic

4

survey topographic

9

topographic map of massachusetts

4

texas topographic map

9

australia map topographic

4

lake map topographic

9

florida topographic map

4

iraq map topographic

8

map newfoundland topographic

4

map symbol topographic

8

tale from topographic ocean

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Topographic

Language Translations for "topographic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

топографски. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

地形学 (topographical). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

وابسته بنقشه برداری یامکان نگاری . (various references)

   

French

  

topographique (topographical). (various references)

   

German

  

topographisch (topographical). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

topográfiai (topographical), térképészeti (cartographic, topographical), helyrajzi (topographical), helyleíró (topographer, topographical). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

等高線地図 (topographic map), 地形図 (topographic map). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

とう"うせ"ちず (topographic map), ちけいず (topographic map). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opographictay

   

Russian 

  

топографический (topographical). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

topografski (topographical). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

topogra/fico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

topografisk (topographical). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

topografik. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Topographic

Derivations

Words beginning with "topographic": topographical, topographically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Topographic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: orographic, tomographic, topograph, topographics, topographys. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Topographic"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "topographic" (pronounced tÄ'pugra"fik)
8-p u g r a" f i kepigraphic.
7-u g r a" f i kcalligraphic, choreographic, demographic, ethnographic, geographic, holographic, hydrographic, lithographic, logographic, oceanographic, orographic, photographic, pornographic, stenographic, stereographic, stratigraphic.
6-g r a" f i kgraphic, micrographic, reprographic.
5-r a" f i ktraffic.
3-f i kanthropomorphic, autotrophic, catastrophic, delphic, dimorphic, geostrophic, heterotrophic, hieroglyphic, honorific, horrific, metamorphic, nonspecific, orphic, Pacific, philosophic, polymorphic, prolific, pseudoscientific, scientific, specific, terrific, transpacific, unscientific.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Topographic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-o-o-p-p-r-t"

-1 letter: pictograph.

-3 letters: agitprop, atrophic, photopia, photopic.

-4 letters: agoroth, aphotic, apricot, aprotic, argotic, chariot, choragi, graphic, haricot, parotic, portico, trophic.

-5 letters: agorot, aortic, aright, atopic, cahoot, captor, carhop, cartop, cogito, cohort, coppra, coprah, gothic, haptic, octopi, octroi, orgiac, orphic, phatic, photic, photog, picaro, ragtop, righto, thoria, thoric, tragic, tropic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-o-o-p-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: photographic.

 

+2 letters: topographical.

 

+4 letters: microphotograph, nonphotographic, photomicrograph, phytogeographic, topographically.

 

+5 letters: antipornographic, microphotographs, microphotography, parapsychologist, photographically, photomicrographs, photomicrography.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Topographic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 70 6F 67 72 61 70 68 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110000 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0070 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481828173846782747569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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