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Meaning of "hypsographic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HYPSOGRAPHIC

ˌhɪpsəˈɡræfɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPSOGRAPHIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypsographic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HYPSOGRAPHIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. Elevation, or geometric height, is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface. This image was generated by NOAA from digital data bases of land and sea-floor elevations on a 2-minute latitude/longitude grid. Assumed illumination is from the west; shading is computed as a function of the east-west slope of the surface with a nonlinear exaggeration favoring low-relief areas. A Mercator projection was used for the world image, which spans 390° of longitude from 270° West around the world eastward to 120° East; latitude coverage is ±80°. The resolution of the gridded data varies from true 2-minute for the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean floors and all land masses to 5 minutes for the Arctic Ocean floor.

Definition of hypsographic in the English dictionary

The definition of hypsographic in the dictionary is of or relating to the study and mapping of the earth's topography above sea level.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPSOGRAPHIC

bibliographic · biographic · chromatographic · crystallographic · demographic · electrocardiographic · ethnographic · graphic · holographic · hydrographic · iconographic · oceanographic · orthographic · phonographic · photographic · pornographic · radiographic · reprographic · topographic · typographic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPSOGRAPHIC

hypoxemia · hypoxemic · hypoxia · hypoxic · Hypsilantes · Hypsilantis · hypsochrome · hypsochromic · hypsographical · hypsography · hypsometer · hypsometric · hypsometrical · hypsometrically · hypsometrist · hypsometry · hypsophobe · hypsophobia · hypsophyll · hypsophyllary

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPSOGRAPHIC

autobiographic · autographic · autoradiographic · calligraphic · cartographic · catastrophic · edaphic · electroencephalographic · electrophotographic · geographic · lithographic · petrographic · photolithographic · physiographic · polygraphic · stenographic · stereographic · stratigraphic · telegraphic · thermographic · tomographic

Synonyms and antonyms of hypsographic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypsographic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPSOGRAPHIC

Find out the translation of hypsographic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hypsographic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypsographic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

hypsographic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

hipsográfica
570 millions of speakers
en

English

hypsographic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

hypsographic
380 millions of speakers
ar

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hypsographic
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

гипсографическая
278 millions of speakers
pt

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hypsographic
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

hypsographic
260 millions of speakers
fr

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hypsographique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Hypsographic
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

hypsographic
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

hypsographic
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

hypsographic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Hypsographic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hypsographic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தரைத் தோற்றவியலுக்குரிய
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हायस्सॉफिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

hypsographic
70 millions of speakers
it

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ipsografica
65 millions of speakers
pl

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hypsographic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

гипсографическая
40 millions of speakers
ro

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hypsographic
30 millions of speakers
el

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hypsographic
15 millions of speakers
af

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hypsographic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hypsographic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hypsographic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypsographic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPSOGRAPHIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of hypsographic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «hypsographic».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypsographic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPSOGRAPHIC»

Discover the use of hypsographic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypsographic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Carbonate-Clastic Transitions
Such very steep hypsographic curves for major rivers are generally restricted to the Himalayan-Tibetan uplift, a product of continental collision, but the upper reaches of the Amazon basin are similar (fig. 4). The Mississippi basin presents a  ...
Laurence (Hy) Doyle, H.H. Roberts, 1987
2
Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems
FIGURE 3-17 Hypsographic (depth-area) curves of oligotrophic Lawrence Lake ( ) and eutrophic Win- tergreen Lake ( ), southwestern Michigan. (From Wetzel, R. G., unpublished data.) FIGURE 4-1 Major pathways of precipitation and the ...
Robert G. Wetzel, 2001
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The Continental Crust: A Geophysical Approach
2.4 THE BIPOLARITY OF SURFACES AND THE HYPSOGRAPHIC CURVES OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS In the last section, the bipolarity of surfaces was introduced as describing the difference between the basaltic and plain lowlands and ...
Rolf Meissner, 1986
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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Also, hyspometric map. hypsographic tinting Cartography, a method for showing elevations on a map or chart by tinting or coloring those parts of the surface features that lie between specified elevations with graded shades of color. Also ...
Christopher G. Morris, 1992
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Sea-Level Change
In this case, to flood a certain area would require a larger decrease in freeboard than would be calculated by using the present- day hypsographic curve. Southam and Hay (1981) suggested that the continental hypsographic curve was steeper ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Geophysics Study Committee, 1990
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Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea: Present Situation, ...
Data from Jonsson (1992) and our calculations from the hypsographic curve for the Baltic Proper based on digital data have been used Average total sedimentation of matter below the theoretical wave base (i.e., on A-areas): 0.15 cm/yr ...
Lars Håkanson, Andreas C. Bryhn, 2008
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The Oceanic Lithosphere
MOOtL HMn WtTHOMU AREA OF WORLD SURFACE (km2) Fig. 11. Present hypsographic curve for the Earth compared with hypothetical hypsographic curves for 220 million years ago. Present hypsographic curve includes Antarctic ice cap ...
Cesare Emiliani, 1981
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Hydrocarbon Migration Systems Analysis
Hypsographic distribution A hypsographic distribution is the relative areal frequency in a certain region of elevations above datum of a laterally extensive bounded surface. It can be expressed by the hypsographic curve, which is a plot of ...
J.M. Verweij, 1993
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
2 — Relative frequency of occurrence of levels for the New Zealand continental block on (a) logarithmic and (b) natural scales; and (r) the cumulative frequency or hypsographic curve. FIG. 3 — Hypsographic curves for New Zealand, and for ...
10
Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics: An Introductory Text
We might think that the bipolarity of the planet, i.e., the division into lowlands and old highlands, would provide one maximum each, giving a hypsographic curve with two peaks. Looking at the hypsographic curves of the terrestrial planets in ...
John Marshall, R. Alan Plumb, 1986

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPSOGRAPHIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hypsographic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Too hot? Some peaks offer climate migrants lots of land
About a fourth of mountains host most of their surface area at the bottom and the top. That gives their hypsographic curve an hourglass shape. «Science News for Students, Jun 15»
2
Hey, guys: Mountains aren't necessarily pyramids
... the relative surface area available (xy planes) with elevation (z plane), derived from the DEM for each range and (bottom) the hypsographic ... «Grist, May 15»
3
Reshaping mountains in the human mind to save species facing …
The researchers are the first to measure available area by elevation—known as the hypsographic curve—at the scale at which animals actually ... «Phys.Org, May 15»
REFERENCE
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