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Definition of: topography
(tə·pog′rə·fē) noun
1. The detailed description of particular places.
2. The art of representing on a map the physical features of a place.
3. The physical features, collectively, of a region.
4. Topographic surveying. [<TOPO- + -GRAPHY]
—top·o·graph·ic (top′ə·graf′ik) or ·i·cal adjective
—top′o·graph′i·cal·ly adverb
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