Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The measurement of elevation relative to sea level.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of measuring the heights of places upon the surface of the earth, either by leveling, by the barometer, by the thermometer, by trigonometrical observations, or otherwise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
measurement ofelevation relative tosea level
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun measurement of the elevation of land above sea level
Etymologies
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Examples
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This form of measurement is called hypsometry from the Greek hypsos, "height" and metria
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Oh, wisdom of man and the apparatus of the sciences, the little columns of mercury that sling up and down, the vacuum boxes that expand and contract, the hammer that chips the highest rocks, the compass that takes the bearings of glacier and ridge -- all the equipage of hypsometry and geology and geodesy -- how pitifully feeble and childish it seems to cope with the majesty of the mountains!
The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Hudson Stuck 1891
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I do not know that accurate levels have been taken in the valley of the Jordan above the Lake of Tiberias, and our information is very vague as to the hypsometry of the northern part of the Wadi-el-Araba.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 06 (historical) 1874
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I do not know that accurate levels have been taken in the valley of the Jordan above the Lake of Tiberias, and our information is very vague as to the hypsometry of the northern part of the Wadi-el-Araba.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
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We collaboration with tap dancer mana hashimoto has been unique? theres a composite natural order out there why the hell are u hypsometry yourself against the sod next to they or underneath she.
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We collaboration with tap dancer mana hashimoto has been unique? theres a composite natural order out there why the hell are u hypsometry yourself against the sod next to they or underneath she.
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