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Webster 1913 Edition

Topography

To-pog′ra-phy

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Noun.
[F.
topographie
, Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] a place + [GREEK] to write.]
The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
☞ Topography, as the description of particular places, is distinguished from chorography, the description of a region or a district, and for geography, the description of the earth or of countries.
Brande & C.

Webster 1828 Edition

Topography

TOPOG'RAPHY

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Noun.
[Gr.place, and description.] The description of a particular place,city, town, manor, parish or tract of land. It is of more limited application than choreography.

Definition 2024

topography

topography

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topography ‎(plural topographies)

  1. a precise description of a place
  2. a detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object
  3. the features themselves (the terrain)
  4. the surveying of the features

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First attested in 1432. From Middle English topographye, from Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek τοπογραφία ‎(topographía), from τόπος ‎(tópos, “place”) + γράφω ‎(gráphō, “I write”).

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