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Definition of Topography |
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Topography
The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region. Related Definitions: And, Any, Delineation, Description, Detail, Especially, Exact, In, Land, Manor, Minute, Of, Or, Parish, Particular, Place, Region, Scientific, The, Town, Tract |
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Topography Quotations
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. Charles Lamb Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. Tony Snow We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. Michael Polanyi Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. George Phillips Bond But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. Michael Polanyi |
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Topography Translations
topography in French is topographie |
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