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Definition of Hypsography
1. Noun. The scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level).
2. Noun. Measurement of the elevation of land above sea level.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypsography
Literary usage of Hypsography
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology of the Lassen Peak District by Joseph Silas Diller (1889)
"hypsography OF THE LASSEN PEAK DISTRICT. The position and boundaries of the Lassen
Peak district are represented in Fig. 13. ..."
2. Biennial Report of the State Geologist (1893)
"The hypsography shall be shown by contour lines with a vertical interval to be
hereafter selected by the two agreeing parties. 5. The heights of important ..."
3. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William North Rice, Herbert Ernest Gregory (1908)
"The survey shall be executed in a manner sufficiently elaborate to prepare a map
upon a scale of 1: 62500, exhibiting the hydrography, hypsography, ..."
4. Manual of Surveying for Field and Office by Raymond Earl Davis (1915)
"CONVENTIONAL SIGNS; hypsography. sign show its name in Italics (Fig. 49, page 224).
(3) Ink, in black, the symbols representing works of man and culture of ..."
5. Topographic, Trigonometric and Geodetic Surveying: Including Geographic by Herbert Michael Wilson (1912)
"Signs to represent hypsography or relief. In the making of a geographic map or of a
... For the representation of hypsography, or surface relief, ..."
6. Topographic, Trigonometric and Geodetic Surveying: Including Geographic by Herbert Michael Wilson (1912)
"For the representation of hypsography, or surface relief, conventional signs must
be adopted (Fig. 147) for the representation of slopes, ..."
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