contour
समोच्च
definition
verb
the compartment has been contoured with smooth rounded corners
mold into a specific shape, typically one designed to fit into something else.
a huge contoured map
mark (a map or diagram) with contour lines.
noun
she traced the contours of his face with her finger
an outline, especially one representing or bounding the shape or form of something.
translation of 'contour'
परिरेखा,
समोच्च रेखा,
रूपरेखा,
आकृति
noun
रूप-रेखा
example
Dialogues varying only in their intonation 'contour' (specifically in pitch accent or boundary tone) were presented in a random order to 47 speakers of Midwestern American English.
For instance, on the excellent piano-driven waltz ‘Irish Elk,’ he just seems to be singing without any sense of melodic 'contour' , and he fails to deliver a convincing hook.
the movement tends to place more emphasis on rhythm than melodic 'contour'
below the 1200-ft 'contour' is a belt of limestone
Each sentence we speak has a pitch 'contour' associated with it that can be broken down into smaller sequences of elementary contours associated with linguistic phenomena.
Yet the map shows a broad swathe of relatively flat land skirting the foothills of the mountain at the 100ft / 33m 'contour' , and extending up to Bundoran.
Regardless of the words, it seems the melodic 'contour' of the song describes the nature of the land over which the song passes.
Does the 'contour' of their accented tongues create a particular Hispanic laugh pattern?
The outer edge is being cut to 'contour' and then rolled into shape.
The 'contour' of the song from order to disorder isn't exactly revolutionary, but the change is gradual enough not to be obvious on the first couple of listens.
Surgeons have advanced in technique to shape and 'contour' the deeper facial tissues and resuspend them.
In Korn's unfortunate sentence, where the ambiguities are structural, a skilled speaker could easily signal the desired analysis by differences in timing, pitch 'contour' and voice quality.
The teacher then modulated the intonational 'contour' until it corresponded to the first syllables of the word paleontologist.
It is noteworthy that this map closely matches the petrographic 'contours' of the geological map.
Workers need something 'contoured' to fit them and their office aches and pains.
As feminist theorists in the 1980s and 1990s proliferated differences in order to better represent the 'contours' of twentieth-century life, science kept pace.
We take for granted the unique shapes and 'contours' of ourselves, as easily as we forget, or perhaps don't consider, our ancestry.
A built-in Mathematica algorithm was used to fit 'contours' to a lattice of values calculated by numerical solution of Equation 11 and Equation 12.
He traces the trajectory of the city's industrial growth and its rising immigrant population, describing how these processes in turn shaped the 'contours' of class formation.
Constructed of shatter-resistant plastic, the compass has an oversized, 'contoured' knob and an adjustable nut to accommodate pens, pencils and thin markers.
Data from the first and second PC and the geographical coordinates for each breed were combined and plotted as 'contoured' geographic maps using a geostatistical griding method.
Mathews brilliantly traces the precise 'contours' of her mood swings, their pace and imagery, their irrational, irresistible force.
Triangles provide stability and curved shapes soften the 'contours' of objects.
Lesson number two was how easy it is to be led away from your course by old tracks and the natural 'contours' in the land.
These are represented by utility 'contours' which indicate increased levels of happiness as we move away from the origin to higher levels of consumption of both goods.
The clip, which is 'contoured' neatly into the pen, is also a new design.
More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing 'contours' of Sibelius' form.
But Rosa's life is also a very modern one, its broad 'contours' shaped by global economic forces and its details modified by individual needs and personal enterprise.
Events may have been shaped to fit the 'contours' of a film script, but the emotional truth of the situations is vividly authentic.
The job might be considerably easier if the driver could don a pair of glasses that superimposes the 'contours' of the map right on the ground.
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