topography

About 3.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A precise description of a place.
2. noun A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
3. noun The features themselves.
4. noun The surveying of the features.
5. noun A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc.

Similar words

topographic topographical surveying map landscape typography geography geomorphology landform configuration

Often followed by

of and is in on was to or that

Word family

topographies