Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ɒˈɹɒɡɹəfi/ · noun
(geomorphology) The scientific study, or a physical description of mountains..
Orography: A description of mountains.
A knowledge of the Hydrography of a country aids as much in determining its geology as does its Orography, — that is, a description of its mountains.
Morocco was in 1883-1884 the scene of important explorations by de Foucauld, a Frenchman who, disguised as a Jew, crossed and re-crossed the Atlas and supplied the first trustworthy information as to the orography of many parts of the chain.
Most flows actually occur, of course, over non-uniform orography and consequently in numerical models of such flows it is necessary to transform the coordinates so that the equations accurately represent flows in such terrain (Gal-Chen and Somerville 1975).
The independent scientists of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) expressed concerns about how the spectral model would deal with steep mountains.[…]It was this work that lead to development of the envelope orography outlined below.
Use orography when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Orography means (geomorphology) The scientific study, or a physical description of mountains..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Orography: A description of mountains.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.