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"contour map" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a map that uses contour lines to represent the elevation and shape of the land or other surface features. Example: The hiker checked the contour map to plan her route through the mountain terrain.
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contour map
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A map made to show the relief measurements of the land by means of contour lines.
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First imagine this is a contour map of the cylinder CMS makes around the LHC collisions.
Finally, they created a new contour map, drawn by hand a template for the restoration of 1609.
He was training shirtless, and his lat muscles popped into relief like a contour map of Ben Nevis.
Tercom used a radar or photographic image from which a digitalized contour map was produced.
Chevalier draws the distinctions of class in the mercantile Dutch nation as a contour map whose every gradation bruises the feet.
The subtle changes in current are interpreted by a computer to make a contour map of the hills and valleys of the atomic terrain.
Her deeply tanned, weathered face with its thousand little creases is a contour map of a long life.
Contour map analyses identified favorable regions for high affinity binding.
Figure 6 is the contour map of the landslide.
The PGA contour map (background) is shown in grayscale.
represented as a contour map of equal T eff.
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