TOPOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does topography mean? 

• TOPOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun TOPOGRAPHY has 2 senses:

1. the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features

2. precise detailed study of the surface features of a region

  Familiarity information: TOPOGRAPHY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOPOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("topography" is a kind of...):

configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))

Derivation:

topographic; topographical (concerned with topography)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Precise detailed study of the surface features of a region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("topography" is a kind of...):

geographics; geography (study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "topography"):

topology (topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography))

Derivation:

topographic; topographical (concerned with topography)

 Context examples 

Another factor that impacts a planet’s climate is topography.

(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)

A radiotracer composed of a cyclic triazole-containing the Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) peptide (RGD-K5) radiolabeled with fluorine F 18, with potential alphaVbeta3 integrin imaging activity upon positron emission topography (PET).

(Fluorine F 18 RGD-K5, NCI Thesaurus)

ICD-O is a dual classification with coding systems for both topography and morphology.

(International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)

The new results come from a study of gravity and topography data collected during Cassini's repeated flybys of Titan during the past 10 years.

(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)

A radiopharmaceutical agent comprised of a pegylated arginine-glycine-aspartic acid dimer (PRGD2) labeled with gallium Ga 68, with potential alphaVbeta3 integrin imaging activity upon positron emission topography (PET) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

(Gallium Ga 68-labeled BNOTA-PRGD2, NCI Thesaurus)

By combining the different types of data, they were able to map the bed topography along Greenland's margins with unprecedented precision and detail.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

Because ice is less dense than rock, the topography could "relax," or smooth out, more quickly if ice or another lower-density material, such as salt, dominates the subsurface composition.

(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)

MacGregor studied the raw radar images that are used to map the topography of the bedrock beneath the ice, including those collected by NASA’s Operation IceBridge.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The third edition of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, published in 2000, used principally in tumor and cancer registries for coding the site (topography) and the histology (morphology) of neoplasms.

(International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition, NCI Thesaurus)

Similarly, scientists conclude that Ceres' weak mantle can be pushed aside by the mass of mountains and other high topography in the outermost layer as though the high-elevation areas float on the material below.

(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)