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/kˈɑntˌʊr laɪn/ Listen

noun

Contour n.

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery. "Titian's coloring and contours."

(Mil.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.

Contour feathers (Zool.), those feathers that form the general covering of a bird.

Contour of ground (Surv.), the outline of the surface of ground with respect to its undulation, etc.

Contour line (Topographical Suv.), the line in which a horizontal plane intersects a portion of ground, or the corresponding line in a map or chart.

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Etymology of 'Contour line'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... between, like a submarine volcanic rift. In England the southeastern plain and the northwestern uplands have been repeatedly arrayed against each other, from the Roman conquest which embraced the lowlands up to about the 500-foot contour line,[79] through the War of the Roses and the Civil War,[80] to the struggle for the repeal of the Corn Laws and the great Reform Bill of 1832.[81] Though the boundary lines have been only roughly the same and each district has contained opponents of the dominant ...

— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple