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noun

Contour n.

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery. "Titian's coloring and contours."

(Mil.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Contour" Quotes from Famous Books

... haze. The path by which we had turned our backs on Monty and Kagig went winding away and away below, here and there an infinitesimal thin line of slightly lighter color, but more often suggested by the contour of the hills. Our Zeitoonli in their zeal to return to their leader had been evidently cutting corners. If the smudge of smoke to the right front overhung Marash, then we were probably already nearer Zeitoon than when ...

— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... thence through Summerland and Cowlitz Park, and westward to a junction with the existing road in Paradise. Its elevation would range between four and seven thousand feet above the sea. The route, as indicated on the contour map, suggests very plainly the engineering feats involved in hanging roads on these steep and ...

— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams

... graceful in attitude, and elegant in manner. Even then he stooped a little, so that his shoulders inclined forward, which gave something of flatness to his chest. His face was thin and elongated; but what a forehead! What eyes! What beauty in the contour of his intellectual visage! In repose, its habitual expression was reflective and concentrated, with a strong ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various

... not be neglected; for what you effect in drawing by the contour of the figure, light and shade must effect with the projections of those parts which front you in the figure. Light and shade there produce what becomes outline to another drawing of the same object in a right angle to ...

— The Life, Studies, And Works Of Benjamin West, Esq. • John Galt

... her face up to him, in laughing remonstrance, he was struck anew by the childishness of its contour, in spite of the pallor, which had become almost habitual of late. Taking it between his hands he looked steadfastly into the limpid shallows of her eyes, as though searching for a hidden something which he ...

— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver

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