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Definition of Orography
1. Noun. The science of mountains.
Definition of Orography
1. n. That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.
Definition of Orography
1. Noun. (geomorphology) the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains ¹
2. Noun. the orographic features of a region ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orography
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Medical Definition of Orography
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Orography
Literary usage of Orography
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. L. Richard's ... Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and by Louis Richard (1908)
"orography. Climate. Hydrography, 489. — Lakes. Coast-line. 491. — Fauna and Flora.
Agricultural and Mineral Wealth, 492. — Population (People), 493. ..."
2. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johann Justus Rein (1884)
"orography. A. GENERAL CONFORMATION OF THE GROUND. THE Japanese Empire is a mountain
country, in which the level, cultivated ground, including the artificial ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"... it is separated by a range of low hills. The longitude of Kandahar was fixed
by electric telegraph. 8. On the orography of the North-Western Frontier ..."
4. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"orography and Geology In the central parts of the peninsula, lying between the
northern and southern granitic sections, the laud slopes gradually upwards ..."
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