contour line

1. 1.

   a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height

   Synonymscontour

   Broaderisometric line

   Narrowerthalweg

Questions about contour line

What does contour line mean?

contour line means "a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height".

What is another word for contour line?

Close synonyms include contour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contour line a common word?

contour line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.