terrain

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"We're fighting also the terrain -- the terrain is a very hard terrain to work with -- and the weather."

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  1. noun An area of land; ground: climbed a tree to view the surrounding terrain.
  2. noun A particular geographic area; a region: a guide who knows this terrain well.
  3. noun The surface features of an area of land; topography: boots designed for rugged terrain.
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  • And worst of all, this terrain was the nesting place of the black cloud. —  Stanislaw Lem - The Invincible
  • Then they set out across the island They wore rubber-soled footgear, and the terrain was almost exclusively hard lava rock, so they had little trouble with noise. —  062 - The Pirate's Ghost
  • The terrain is about as accurate as is available for almost the entire planet (from the SRTM data set - from NASA). —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • The track from Kanchanaburi to Nam Tok winds gracefully through some stunning rugged terrain, the highlight being a slow sweeping arc along a treacherously unforgiving mountain face. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Afghanistan is likely to be an even more futile enterprise than Iraq ever was -- fiercely imposing terrain, and a hard scrabble mostly primitive and proud population that largely wants nothing to do with us. —  The Nation: Top Stories
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  1. French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *terrānum, alteration of Latin terrēnum, from neuter of terrēnus, of the earth; see terrene.

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  1. Also sometimes terrane; from French terrain, terrein, ground, a piece of ground, soil, rock, = Italian terreno, from Latin terrenum, land, ground, properly neuter of terrenus, consisting of earth, from terra, earth: see terra, terrene.
 

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