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The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

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  1. n. The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
  2. n. the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features
  3. n. precise detailed study of the surface features of a region
  4. The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region. Note: Topography, as the description of particular places, is distinguished from chorography, the description of a region or a district, and for geography, the description of the earth or of countries. Brande & C.
  5. The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, ortract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation anddescription in minute detail of any place or region.
  6. n:100 n. the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features n. precise detailed study of the surface features of a region