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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈkɒntʊə(r)/

Noun

  1. A curved shape.
  2. :The shapely contour of a woman's buttocks.
  3. A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.


Translations

See also

Category:Cartography

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Contour \Con*tour"\, n. [F. contour, fr. contourner to mark the
outlines; con- + tourner to turn. See Turn.]
1. The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines
representing such an outline; the line that bounds;
periphery.
[1913 Webster]

Titian's coloring and contours. --A. Drummond.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Mil.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground,
or of works of fortification.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet contour
n 1: a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
[syn: contour line]
2: any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
"he could barely make out their shapes through the smoke"
[syn: shape, form, configuration, conformation]
3: a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of
anything having a complex structure; "the contours of the
melody"; "it defines a major contour of this
administration"
v : form the contours of
Moby Dictionary
broad lines , configuration , delineate , delineation , features ,
figuration , figure , framework , galbe , gestalt , limn , line ,
lineaments , lineation , lines , main features , outline , profile ,
relief , shapes , silhouette , skeleton , tournure


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