Orography: A description of mountains.
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Orography
//ɒˈɹɒɡɹəfi//
Synonyms for "orography" (2 found)
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32 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- լեռնագրություն noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- լեռնագրություն noun (the orographic features of a region)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- oroqrafiya noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Catalan
1 entries- orografia noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 地形 noun (the orographic features of a region)
- 山岳形態學 /山岳形态学 noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- 山志學 /山志学 noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Finnish
1 entries- orografia noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
French
2 entries- orographie noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- orographie noun (the orographic features of a region)
Friulian
1 entries- orografie noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Galician
1 entries- orografía noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
German
1 entries- Orographie noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Greek
2 entries- ορογραφία noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- ορογραφία noun (the orographic features of a region)
Hungarian
2 entries- hegyrajz noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- orográfia noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Indonesian
1 entries- orografi noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Irish
1 entries- oragrafaíocht noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Italian
2 entries- orografia noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- orografia noun (the orographic features of a region)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- çiyazanî noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Polish
2 entries- orografia noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- orografia noun (the orographic features of a region)
Portuguese
1 entries- orografia noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Russian
3 entries- орогра́фия noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- орогра́фия noun (the orographic features of a region)
- релье́ф noun (the orographic features of a region)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- orogràfija noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- орогра̀фија noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
Spanish
2 entries- orografía noun (the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains)
- orografía noun (the orographic features of a region)
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A knowledge of the Hydrography of a country aids as much in determining its geology as does its Orography, — that is, a description of its mountains.
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Morocco was in 1883-1884 the scene of important explorations by de Foucauld, a Frenchman who, disguised as a Jew, crossed and re-crossed the Atlas and supplied the first trustworthy information as to the orography of many parts of the chain.
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Most flows actually occur, of course, over non-uniform orography and consequently in numerical models of such flows it is necessary to transform the coordinates so that the equations accurately represent flows in such terrain (Gal-Chen and Somerville 1975).
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