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relief map
noun
- a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
relief map
noun
- a map that shows the configuration and height of the land surface, usually by means of contours
relief map
/ rĭ-lēf′ /
- A map that depicts land configuration, often with contour lines. Some relief maps are three-dimensional.
Word History and Origins
Origin of relief map1
Example Sentences
I was now a rippling sheet of endlessly lean muscle, my sinew bulging beneath mud-caked skin like some surrealist relief map of the ancient ridges I’d walked.
A study of any good relief-map of Europe will show the chief routes of trade almost at a glance.
The whole globe was a carefully chiseled relief map, showing seas, mountains, and continents.
Contoured: An irregular but smoothly undulating surface, resembling the surface of a relief map.
As the manager had said, the country was spread out under them like a big relief map.
Always it became smaller, and more and more like a coloured relief-map with tiny, Noah's-ark houses.
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