| 单词 |
clinographic |
| 释义 |
clinographic, a.|klaɪnəʊˈgræfɪk| [f. clino- + Gr. γραϕικ-ός of writing or drawing: see -ic.] Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing, in which the rays are assumed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection. Also, clinographic curve: a curve representing the slope or slopes of (a portion of) the earth's surface.
1889Cent. Dict., Clinographic. 1910Encycl. Brit. VII. 573/2 Clinographic drawings are most frequently used for representing crystals. 1935J. Hanson-Lowe in Geol. Mag. LXXII. 181 The real need of the morphologist is a knowledge of the actual average gradients between any two available (and adjacent) contours. For this reason I suggest that a new curve, which may conveniently be called the clinographic curve, is of far greater use [than the hypsographic curve]. 1937Geogr. Jrnl. XC. 58 The district has been divided into four sub-regions and hypsographic and clinographic curves have been drawn for each. |

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