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Definition of Hachures
1. hachure [v] - See also: hachure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hachures
Literary usage of Hachures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"62, the hachures for the slopes at b and c having been determined by the scale
of shade, they are gradually increased in breadth in working between these ..."
2. Map Reading and Topographical Sketching by Edwin Roy Stuart (1918)
"Methods of Representing Ground Forms. There are two general methods in use for
representing ground forms: 1. By hachures; and 2. By contours. ..."
3. Laboratory and Field Exercises in Physical Geography by Gilbert Haven Trafton (1905)
"Beginning with this, draw the hachures for the rest of the area, showing the
direction of the slopes by the direction of the hachures, and the amount of ..."
4. Military Topography and Photography by Floyd D. Carlock (1918)
"hachures are short radiating lines pointing from higher elevations to lower: they
are very difficult and tedious to make; they do not necessarily show ..."
5. Topographical Drawing and Sketching, Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1888)
"Shades of different intensities are blended into each other, and the limiting
hachures of a slope are blended into the level surface. Thus, as in Fig. ..."
6. Topographic, Trigonometric and Geodetic Surveying: Including Geographic by Herbert Michael Wilson (1912)
"Between these contour lines and at right angles to them are drawn the hachure
lines, the contours being only penciled in and the hachures inked so that ..."
7. Topographic Maps and Sketch Mapping by James Kip Finch (1920)
"RELIEF Three methods, hachures, contours and shading, have been used on maps
either singly or in combination to show the relief, or variations in the height ..."
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