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contour map

noun as in map with contour lines for heights

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Viewing it in a large way, and reserving details for later consideration, we may compare it to a topographical contour map.

A contour map in colours such as Bartholomew's "half inch" is a great help in this matter.

We did not need the contour map to know that some of these heights exceeded Yosemite's.

He was a thin little man with a face as wrinkled as a contour map of South America.

Little ridges covered his countenance as if it had been a contour map of a mountainous country.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contour map, such as: relief map, and topographic map.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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