Sentence examples for Contour from inspiring English sources
The word "contour" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the outline of a shape, a line or figure. For example, "The contour of the mountain range was majestic in the early morning light."
noun
An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- The low drag contour of a modern automobile.
He accuses politicians and local administrators of "regularising environmental violations by builders", and of stalling the release of a contour map that would demarcate high-tide zones where construction would be hazardous.
To explain why he chose this style, Kerpedjiev writes in a blogpost: A map containing contour lines corresponding to the locations which can be reached in a particular amount of time provides a clear and concise comparison between the travel times to various locations as well as a concrete reference to the absolute time required to reach a particular point.
Many of the pieces took inspiration from a particular coastal contour that Hepworth explored in walks from St Ives.
There is an engaging cross-cultural reciprocity to the influence of the familiar on imagery of the novel: Australian and British art galleries are filled with early European paintings that lend the antipodean marsupial a strong vulpine, canine or bovine resemblance and the Indigenous (especially female) human form an idealised European softness and contour.
Burley Griffin posted his winning design for Canberra from Chicago, using the Australian government's handy application kit (consisting of a set of panoramic oil paintings of the site, a fact sheet on its climate and geology, 12 pages of instructions and two contour maps on which to sketch a proposal).
It might even yield more clues about exactly what happened to the stricken aircraft after radio contact was lost shortly after take-off.A lot depends on the contour mapping.
And hidden beneath the surface lies a lattice of pipelines that pump the oil and gas ashore (see map above).Today, all of that activity peters out along a line where the underwater contour sinks to below 1,500 feet.
The instruments on CONTOUR, and other missions, will analyse dust for carbon-based molecules, and should thus be able to provide an answer.There may, however, be a more prosaic reason for the sudden interest in comets: most other bodies in the solar system have been explored already.
In many ways, the problems then were not all that different from those confronting driverless cars today.In fact, the radio altimeters aboard a contour-hugging missile are close relatives of the adaptive cruise-control (ACC) system used to relieve motorists of having to brake and accelerate to maintain a constant distance behind a car in front.
Since Davies's theory posits at base a contour-recognition experience while Levinson's posits an imaginative experience of expression, the link between literal expression and musical expressivity looks closer in Levinson's theory than in Davies's.
At least two groups of scientists—one at the National Research Council Canada and the other at Global Contour, a firm in Texas—are developing electrically conductive cement that will block electromagnetic pulses.
