contour line

Of course, these hills are much lower and do not reach the 200-metre contour line.

That's why you have to look at the contour lines."

There's always some intriguing landmark just over the next contour line.

Both were designed to run along a contour line.

With an altimeter, you can follow a contour line as if it were a road.

The greater the number of contour lines, the darker the crater would look from the air.

The seventy-five foot contour line ran down the street on the building's western side.

The model was moved to within the contour lines of the superimposed map.

This is equivalent to saying that while moving along the contour line for the value of can vary.

When maps with contour lines became common, the idea spread to other applications.

The process involved cutting the contour lines on a series of plates which were then stacked.

Another presents a ship sinking between the contour lines of a map.

"We will have to put one more contour line on the top of our Everest map," he remarked.

She took the map and studied the contour lines.

Here arable land remained up to the 45 meter contour line.

More commonly, intensity is indicated using contour lines or different colors.

They went back to the topographical map and looked closely at the contour lines.

Think of the contour lines on a relief map, which show elevations above sea level.

God, I'd only to go over the fifty-foot contour line, and after that it was downhill again!

It was on the outer face of the valley's western wall, and the contour lines were discouraging.

The trail was narrowing and becoming a ledge along the contour line.

But then-you see a lot of contour lines packed closely together?

In meteorology, the word isopleth is used for any type of contour line.

Isopleth - contour line joining points corresponding to similar values.

In the jungle, too, it's simple, because you've got lots of rivers and you can use contour lines.