hydrography
Americannoun
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the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
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those parts of a map, collectively, that represent surface waters.
noun
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the study, surveying, and mapping of the oceans, seas, and rivers Compare hydrology
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the oceans, seas, and rivers as represented on a chart
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The scientific description and analysis of the physical characteristics of Earth's surface waters, including temperature, salinity, oxygen saturation, and the chemical content of water. Oceanography (the study of saltwater bodies) and limnology (the study of freshwater bodies) are subsets of hydrography.
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The mapping of bodies of water.
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Origin of hydrography
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“Information on long-term past changes in Arctic Ocean hydrography are needed, and long overdue,” Dr. Ezat wrote in an email.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2021
This contained instructions for observation in a dizzying range of new disciplines — a scientific A–Z from astronomy to zoology, by way of botany, geology, hydrography, magnetism, mineralogy, statistics and tides.
From Nature • Dec. 18, 2018
As the planet teems with more and more humanity, his work, with its multiple disciplines—including history, sociology, engineering, botany, geology, hydrography and, above all, architecture—is becoming more and more a pressing necessity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farther east no part of Asia has been brought under more careful investigation than the hydrography of the strange mountain wilderness that divides Tibet and Burma from China.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
A precipitous rock rising out of the sea, in northern hydrography.
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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