hydrographical
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British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took three years to build, had to be thrice heightened, cost $21,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Not to mention what the bureau has sunk into a dozen planning reports, hydrographical surveys, maps, cost-benefit analysis, and—you know,” Roland Kyburz added.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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With his arms full of rolled-up hydrographical survey maps, he got out and started for the church.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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He was a correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences, to whom he regularly transmitted meteorological observations, and sometimes hydrographical journals.
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
A hydrographical warning on a chart to denote that the pinnacle of a rock, or a shoal, may exist thereabout.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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