topography
Do a topographical site survey in order to confirm the real area of the property.
He criticized the lack of detailed topographical studies of towns at that time.
Topographical engineers prepared a map of the ground on which battles were fought.
Hills, forests, and other topographic features can affect mobile phone reception.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography - general words
boreal forest
cultural geography
geo-targeted
geographer
geographical
geopolitically
geopolitics
gradient
human geography
hydrological
hydrologist
lie
physical geography
political geography
Silicon Valley
solifluction
timberline
tree line
weathering
windblown

Examples of topographical

topographical
A glass substrate was kept parallel to and 14.5 mm away from the thin film to deposit atomic beams for the topographical analysis.
To repeat, there is firstly no documentary or topographical evidence that the eagre ever travelled so far upstream.
Topographical organization of the projections from physiologically identified areas of the motor cortex to the striatum in the rat.
By the late 1840s the form and motifs of traditional topographical advertisements were no longer reconcilable with the ambition and scale of new manufacturing practices.
Topographical organization of inferior olive cells projecting to translation and rotation zones in the vestibulocerebellum of pigeons.
On-site observations allow for comparisons between historical records and current sociological and topographical data.
It forged connections between parishes, townships and unions with very different topographical, locational and socio-economic characteristics.
This requires using the already mapped historical evidence to date certain morphological and topographical features, such as defences, ditches and buildings.
Each essay is followed by a detailed chronological listing of the primary historical evidence for the town's topographical development, classified under 22 separate heads.
The sites of historical remembrance can be manifested in various forms as institutions, topographical places, objects, cultural creations, social habits, and even buildings.
In the hearts examined, the bundle branches displayed a considerable variability, both in size as in topographical aspects.
Indeed, the low topographical relief, the continuity of forest cover and apparent structure were unlikely to be barriers to bird dispersal.
To show this it is necessary to consider some aspects of topographical and toponymical evidence contained in the archaeological and documentary record.
Observations show that they were most abundant at plots 2, 4 and 9, which are areas of comparatively low topographical height.
The isoclines are shown for every metre difference in topographical height, referenced to the lowest point in the area (see zero mark on northern edge).
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