clinographic
English
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[edit]clinographic (not comparable)
- Relating to a mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
- 1938, Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf, Earl Ingerson, Structural Petrology, page 225:
- If it is desired to construct an accurate clinographic projection from an othographic projection of a specimen, detailed directions may be found in Dana's Textbook of Mineralogy.
- Pertaining to the display or analysis of slope or incline.
- clinographic analysis
- 2004, Michael Bishop, John F. Shroder, Geographic Information Science and Mountain Geomorphology, page 116:
- The terminology of clinographic curves is somewhat confusing. Strictly speaking, if the hypsographic curve shows the distribution of height of a given area, the clinographic curve should show the distribution of slope in a given area·
- 2005, Md Babar, Hydrogeomorphology: Fundamentals, Applications and Techniques, page 133:
- The clinographic curves reveal the breaks in slope and sudden changes in the relief of the area and they also present the general trend of the surface.
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