topography
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1432. From Middle English topographye, from Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek τοπογραφία (topographía), from τόπος (tópos, “place”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /təˈpɒɡɹəfi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /təˈpɑɡɹəfi/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: top‧og‧raphy
- Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Noun
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topography (countable and uncountable, plural topographies)
- A precise description of a place.
- A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
- The features themselves; terrain.
- The surveying of the features.
- (by extension) A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc.
- 2014, Rachel Lee Rubin, Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture, page 283:
- With good humor if predictably, the emotional topography of the faire facilitates a kind of liberation from both the closet and the cruelty of high school cliquedom.
Derived terms
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[edit]a precise description of a place
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the features themselves (the terrain)
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