hypsometry

1. 1.

   measurement of the elevation of land above sea level

   Synonymshypsography

   Broadermeasurement

Other forms of hypsometry

plural

hypsometries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypsometry

What does hypsometry mean?

hypsometry means "measurement of the elevation of land above sea level".

How many syllables are in hypsometry?

hypsometry has 4 syllables: hyp-so-me-try. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for hypsometry?

Close synonyms include hypsography. 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 hypsometry a common word?

hypsometry 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.