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The topography of the region, with its high mountains and deep valleys, makes it a challenging area for hikers.topography = surface features
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I always look at a topographical map before hiking.topographical = showing surface features including elevation
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Los Angeles is prone to smog because of its topography.topography = geographic surface features
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Mmm, beaches. Family-owned restaurants. Topography. All excellent examples of things we lack. (source)Topography = interesting geographic surface features
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Given the treacherous nature of the local topography (most of the cliffs that riddle the region are composed of Navajo sandstone, a crumbly stratum that erodes into smooth, bulging precipices) and Ruess's penchant for dangerous climbing, this is a credible scenario. (source)topography = features of the surface area of a region
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But here, where the topography was a jumble, the sun balanced along the summits, setting behind a ridge one moment and then popping up again when Chase's truck ascended the next rise. (source)topography = geographic surface features
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Having dispensed with dreams of quick discovery, the world's Crusoes seek shelter and a source of fresh water; they teach themselves to make fire from flint; they study their island's topography, its climate, its flora and fauna, all the while keeping their eyes trained for sails on the horizon and footprints in the sand. (source)topography = geographic surface features
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They went back to the topographical map and looked closely at the contour lines. (source)topographical = showing surface features including elevation
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Topographic, touristical, some schematic-these last handmade.† (source)
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On Wednesday a group of engineers, agronomists, hydrologists, topographers, and surveyors arrived who for several weeks explored the places where Mr. Herbert had hunted his butterflies.† (source)
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When discussing taxation, does "local" knowledge mean being topographically familiar with every mountain, river, stream, highway, and road in each State?† (source)
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Some claimed the mountainous backdrop in Madonna of the Rocks matched the topography of a series of cave-ridden hills in Scotland. (source)topography = geographic surface features
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Despite the topographical differences and the different regional economies of the South and the industrial Midwest, my travels had been confined largely to places where the people looked and acted like my family. (source)
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Unlike McCandless, however, I have in my backpack a 1:63,360-scale topographic map (that is, a map on which one inch represents one mile). (source)topographic = showing the features of the surface area of a region -- especially changes in elevation
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Also arriving on the special car, fluttering around Mr. Brown, were the solemn lawyers dressed in black who in different times had followed Colonel Aureliano Buendia everywhere, and that led the people to think that the agronomists, hydrologists, topographers, and surveyors, like Mr. Herbert with his captive balloons and his colored butterflies and Mr. Brown with his mausoleum on wheels and his ferocious German shepherd dogs, had something to do with the war.† (source)
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It was magnificent country, as topographically imposing as any landscape on earth, but it wasn't wilderness, and hadn't been for hundreds of years.† (source)
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