A contoured surface has curves and slopes on it, rather than being flat. the lush fairways and contoured greens of the course Sophia settled into her comfortably contoured seat
A contour on a map is a line joining points of equal height and indicating hills, valleys, and the steepness of slopes. a contour map showing two hills and this large mountain in the middle
a series of curves forming a closed path in a plane or on a surface Also, stress and displacement contours that represent lines connecting stresses and displacements of the same magnitude
line drawn on a map to join points of equal height Contours are drawn at regular height intervals; for example, every 10 m The closer together the lines are, the steeper the slope
An imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of the same elevation A line drawn on a map connecting the points of the same elevation
An imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of the same elevation or a line drawn on a map connecting points of the same elevation This term may include allowable deviations from the true contour
Contours are lines that connect points of equal elevation Index contours are darker lines that typically mark every 5th contour and are labeled with the elevation In case you wondered, Bathymetry represents the contours below sea level
a line around a shape in a work of art, its nature depending on the artist's concept and intention In medieval painting, contours were initially regular, flat outlines; in the course of the 14th century they acquired more sense of spatial effect, and appear to be alternately more and less emphatic Later, the effect of contour in painting and graphic art became particularly important to artistic movements in which line and draughtsmanship was a prominent factor
A closed shape, part of an *outline In most fonts, the letters S, i and B have one, two and three contours respectively In TrueType, black (solid) contours are defined by clockwise control points, white contours (holes) are defined anti-clockwise Note that while this is the reverse of PostScript fonts, many people are used to the clockwise black outlines presented by *Fontographer
a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure; "the contours of the melody"; "it defines a major contour of this administration"