orography
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From oro- (“mountain”) + -graphy.
Pronunciation
Noun
orography (usually uncountable, plural orographies)
- (geomorphology) the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains
- 1846, Joseph Emerson Worcester, A universal and critical dictionary of the English language: to which are added Walker's Key to the pronunciation of classical and Scripture proper names, much enlarged and improved, and a pronouncing vocabulary of modern geographical names, Boston: Wilkins, Carter, and Company, published 1849, page 501:
- Orography: A description of mountains.
- 1853, Edward Hitchcock, “The Geology of the Globe”, in Outline of the Geology of the Globe and of the United States in Particular with Sketches of Characteristic American Fossils., Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, page 10:
- 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.
- the orographic features of a region
- 1911, “Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition”, in Africa:
- 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.
- 1995, B. W. Atkinson, “Introduction to the fluid mechanics of meso-scale flow fields”, in A. Gyr, Franz-S. Rys, editors, Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields, page 20:
- 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).
- 2006, Austin Woods, Medium-Range Weather Prediction: The European Approach, page 105:
- The independent scientists of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) expressed concerns about how the spectral model would deal with steep mountains. […] It was this work that lead to development of the envelope orography outlined below.
Translations
the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains
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the orographic features of a region
References
- OED 2004 (online)