Definition of Contoured

1. Verb. (past of contour) ¹

2. Adjective. Smoothly shaped ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Contoured

1. contour [v] - See also: contour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contoured

contortive
contorts
contortuplicate
contos
contour
contour feather
contour feathers
contour interval
contour language
contour line
contour lines
contour lines of Owen
contour map
contour sheet
contour tone
contoured
contouring
contourless
contourlet
contourlets
contourné
contours
contra
contra-
contra-angle
contra-aperture
contra-octave
contra-octaves
contra dance
contra dances

Literary usage of Contoured

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Stochastic Inequalities by Yung Liang Tong, Moshe Shaked (1992)
"Also, sharpened forms of these concentration inequalities are presented for elliptically contoured distributions that are not absolutely continuous with ..."

2. Multivariate Analysis and Its Applications by Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Ingram Olkin, Kʻai-tʻai Fang (1994)
"Under the assumption of an elliptically contoured distribution, Sinha (1984) provided a locally best invariant test for outliers based on multivariate ..."

3. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"Study of a Contoured Map.—Fig. 39, Plate VIII., shows various surface-forms of ground as represented by contours, and also the positions of certain ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"A third party believed gravitation to be the only economical distributive power for sewage, and open gutters contoured along the undulating ground the. only ..."

5. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"The double-contoured bands on the outer edge of the phloem, inside the layer of cells following и, indicate the collapsed primitive elements of the phloem ..."

6. Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the by Edward Charles Frome (1850)
"By the aid of a contoured plan, many problems can likewise be worked out without the aid of vertical sections ; from among others the five following are ..."

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