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Definition: Topographic |
TopographicAdjective1. Concerned with topography; "a topographical engineer"; "a topographical survey"; "topographic maps". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Science | Of or having to do with topography or the physical features of a place. (references) |
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Synonym: TopographicSynonym: topographical (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Topographic |
| Specialty definitions using "topographic": Beaman stadia arc, Brunton compass ♦ Contour lines ♦ drain tunnel, Drainage Divide ♦ form contour ♦ geochemical mapping, geomorphological map ♦ hachure map, humide ♦ inverted relief, isostatic correction ♦ map of phenomena, Microscopy, Atomic Force ♦ NAD27, NATIONAL ATLAS, NATIONAL MAP ACCURACY STANDARDS, Nettleton method ♦ old ice ♦ PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEER, PHOTOGRAMMETRIST, planimetric map ♦ serrate texture, SHADED RELIEF, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, supraliminal tonal audiometry, surficial features map ♦ topographic map ♦ Universal soil loss equation ♦ Watershed Area. (references) |
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![]() | 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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "topographic": aeronautical topographic chart ♦ topographic base ♦ Topographic chart ♦ topographic point. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "topographic": non-topographic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| 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 топографический (topographical). (various references) topografski (topographical). (various references) topogra/fico. (various references) topografisk (topographical). (various references) topografik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "topographic": topographical, topographically. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "topographic" (pronounced tÄ'pugra"fik) |
| 8 | -p u g r a" f i k | epigraphic. |
| 7 | -u g r a" f i k | calligraphic, choreographic, demographic, ethnographic, geographic, holographic, hydrographic, lithographic, logographic, oceanographic, orographic, photographic, pornographic, stenographic, stereographic, stratigraphic. |
| 6 | -g r a" f i k | graphic, micrographic, reprographic. |
| 5 | -r a" f i k | traffic. |
| 3 | -f i k | anthropomorphic, autotrophic, catastrophic, delphic, dimorphic, geostrophic, heterotrophic, hieroglyphic, honorific, horrific, metamorphic, nonspecific, orphic, Pacific, philosophic, polymorphic, prolific, pseudoscientific, scientific, specific, terrific, transpacific, unscientific. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 70 6F 67 72 61 70 68 69 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110000 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o p o g r a p h i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0070 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5481828173846782747569 |
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