TOPOGRAPHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does topographic mean? 

• TOPOGRAPHIC (adjective)
  The adjective TOPOGRAPHIC has 1 sense:

1. concerned with topography

  Familiarity information: TOPOGRAPHIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOPOGRAPHIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concerned with topography

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

topographic; topographical

Context example:

topographic maps

Pertainym:

topography (precise detailed study of the surface features of a region)

Derivation:

topography (the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features)

topography (precise detailed study of the surface features of a region)

 Context examples 

It corresponds to the inferior part of the lower third topographic segment of the esophagus.

(Abdominal Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

Consequently, polar topographic depressions, such as impact craters, never see the Sun.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

The integration of both discrete and continuum modeling techniques in representing distinct dynamics and topographic regions of a system.

(Hybrid Modeling, NCI Thesaurus)

A lithographic technique that is used to transfer the topographic patterns of a master (often called the mold or template) to a resistant material or other surface through direct contact or pressing.

(Nanoimprinting, NCI Thesaurus)

It corresponds to the superior part of the upper third topographic segment of the esophagus.

(Cervical Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

Some 30 years ago, a scientist at the University of Colorado Denver suggested that heat from a mantle plume under Marie Byrd Land might explain regional volcanic activity and a topographic dome feature.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)

Following the finding of that first crater, Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, checked topographic maps of the rock beneath Greenland’s ice for signs of other craters.

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

The topographic signal detected by the scientists is relatively more prominent in smaller simple craters, but does not preclude the possibility that ice may be more widespread in larger craters across the lunar pole.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)