contour map

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   a map having contour lines through points of equal elevation

   Synonymsrelief map

   Broadermap

Questions about contour map

What does contour map mean?

contour map means "a map having contour lines through points of equal elevation".

What is another word for contour map?

Close synonyms include relief map. 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 map a common word?

contour map 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.