hydrographical

American  

[hahy-druh graf-i-kuhl] / ˌhaɪ drə ˈgræf ɪ kəl /

adjective

1. regarding or relating to hydrography.

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Other Word Forms

• hydrographically adverb

Example Sentences

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

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

“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

Vigia, vi-jē′a, n. a hydrographical warning on a chart, of a rock, &c.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Alluvial plain.—The hydrographical basin of the Mississippi displays, on the grandest scale, the action of running water on the surface of a vast continent.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir