orography

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The area is characterised by its mountainous orography, and which has favoured cultural and genetic isolation.

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  1. noun The study of the physical geography of mountains and mountain ranges.

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  • The area is characterised by its mountainous orography, and which has favoured cultural and genetic isolation. —  Emaxhealth
  • This system combines multicriteria analysis and the analytic hierarchy process with geographical information systems (GIS) technology and at the same time takes into account environment, orography, location, and climate factors. alps assessment biodiversity biofuels biomass climate_change corn distribution energy lake land_use lca n2o planning proxy renewable_energy shift soybean sustainability sustainable_science vegetation CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This mountain separated the Apennines from the Carpathians In lunar orography, several chains of mountains have been distinguished which are principally distributed over the northern hemisphere. —  The Moon-Voyage
  • It possessed a special orography, a mountain system which made it a world apart. —  The Moon-Voyage
  • But the observations of scientific travellers have recently thrown great light on the orography of —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
 

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  1. Also oreography; = French orographie = Portuguese oreographia, from Greek ὅρος, a mountain, + -γραφία, from γρἀφειν, write.
 

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/əˈrɑgrəfi/
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