relief map

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   a map having contour lines through points of equal elevation

   Synonymscontour map

   Broadermap

Questions about relief map

What does relief map mean?

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

What is another word for relief map?

Close synonyms include contour 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 relief map a common word?

relief 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.