Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to topography; of the nature of topography.

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  • adjective variant of topographic

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  • adjective concerned with topography

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Examples

  • Grieg specialised in topographical engravings, of which he published several volumes organised by place.

    Index of People 2009

  • That department of anatomical research to which the name topographical strictly applies, as confining itself to the mere account of the form and relative location of the several organs comprising the animal body, is almost wholly isolated from the main questions of physiological and transcendental interest, and cannot, therefore, be supposed to speak in those comprehensive views which anatomy, taken in its widest signification as a science, necessarily includes.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • They show us also, incidentally, how careful she was herself to be correct in topographical and other statements.

    Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

  • Yes, though I can't recall a topographical instance right off, I know there have been a couple.

    Deja vu - locations and place names Carla 2006

  • According to Sasha, the only thing Mundy has in common with Leon Trotsky is what the great man called topographical cretinism.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • In a way that few could have predicted twenty or thirty years ago, the current focus on process studies and computer modeling is bringing geomorphologists full circle, leading them to reexamine William Morris Davis's idea of the long-term topographical life cycle.

    The Liquid Earth 1999

  • In a way that few could have predicted twenty or thirty years ago, the current focus on process studies and computer modeling is bringing geomorphologists full circle, leading them to reexamine William Morris Davis's idea of the long-term topographical life cycle.

    The Liquid Earth 1999

  • He remembered the name and recalled a topographical map of the region which he had looked at one day in Colonel Whittaker's office.

    With Hoops of Steel Florence Finch Kelly 1898

  • Under authority of chapter 72, resolves of 1884, a commission of three persons known as the topographical survey commission, was appointed, whose duties were to aid "in the preparation and completion of a contour topographical survey and map of this Commonwealth."

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Our esteemed friend and correspondent _Vyvyan_, is probably familiar with the locality of Lydford: his fancy might people it with pixies, and group its scenery into a kind of topographical romance; probably not unaided by its proximity to Dartmoor. [

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title Various

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