单词 | hypsometry |
释义 | hypsometryn. The measuring of altitudes; the science which treats of this; also, the subject of this science, the condition of a part of the earth's surface in reference to height above (or depth below) the level of the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > relief > altitude hypsometry1570 erection1584 erectnessa1613 tree-line1893 the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > [noun] > measurement > of relief hypsometry1570 morphometry1857 hypsography1885 orometry1886 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measurement of other dimensions > [noun] > of height or depth hypsometry1570 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measurement of other dimensions > [noun] > of height or depth > of altitude or height altimetrya1393 hypsometry1847 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiij v How High or depe, aboue or vnder the leuel of the measurers standing, any thing is..called Hypsometrie. 1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) v. §283 That part of the extra-tropical North Atlantic..is peculiar as to its hypsometry. 1861–3 H. de Schlagintweit et al. Results Sci. Mission India & High Asia II. (title) General Hypsometry of India, the Himalaya, and Western Thibet. 1874 J. D. Whitney (title) Barometric Hypsometry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1570 |
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