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TOPOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("topography" is a kind of...):
configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))
Derivation:
topographic; topographical (concerned with topography)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Precise detailed study of the surface features of a region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("topography" is a kind of...):
geographics; geography (study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "topography"):
topology (topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography))
Derivation:
topographic; topographical (concerned with topography)
Context examples:
The Human Connectome Project (HCP) team set out to banish this blurriness by using multiple, precisely aligned, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities to measure cortical architecture, activity, connectivity, and topography in a group of 210 healthy participants.
(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)
The topography code describes the site of origin of the neoplasm.
(International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)
Morlighem's new topography shows southern Greenland's ragged, crumbling coastline is scored by more than 100 canyons beneath glaciers that empty into the ocean.
(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)
Buried under the Greenland Ice Sheet, the subcontinent's bedrock topography has been estimated using soundings from ice-penetrating radar.
(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)
The glaciers of Greenland are likely to retreat faster and farther inland than anticipated, and for much longer, according to this very different topography we have discovered, said Mathieu Morlighem, a UCI associate project scientist who is lead author of the new research paper.
(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)
