Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area that is visible from a certain vantage point, especially when considered valuable or worth preserving for aesthetic reasons.
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- noun geography The
view from a particularvantage point .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Second viewshed is very important to the resident of this area.
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Its idea is to protect the environmental integrity of the riverbanks and bluffs, and to preserve what planners call its "viewshed" - that canoe-in-the wilderness feel.
JSOnline.com JSOnline.com 2010
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Its idea is to protect the environmental integrity of the riverbanks and bluffs, and to preserve what planners call its "viewshed" - that canoe-in-the wilderness feel.
JSOnline.com JSOnline.com 2010
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We can't be destroying the "viewshed" that overlooks a bustling Roanoke Valley, teeming with vibrant business establishments employing highly motivated, highly skilled, and well-paid workers battling mightily with Detroit to make the Roanoke area 178th in economic vitality out of America's 200 largest communities.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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We can't be destroying the "viewshed" that overlooks a bustling Roanoke Valley, teeming with vibrant business establishments employing highly motivated, highly skilled, and well-paid workers battling mightily with Detroit to make the Roanoke area 178th in economic vitality out of America's 200 largest communities.
From On High 2006
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In Westwood, the signs would be within the "viewshed" of people on Whitewood Road and Blue Hill Drive, and would not be attractive given their proximity to the planned Westwood Station development, said Town Administrator Michael Jaillet.
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The rest will be split between school operating costs and improving its facilities -- including money for protections of the campus "viewshed," or visible environment.
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i guess it could be worse. the last class i have is historical ecology. i...well, i guess i can almost describe it as popomo archeology. the instructor explains concepts like "viewshed" & "privileged view." like, lawns in olde englande. estate design features like the ha-ha so called because if you fall in one people say "ha ha!"
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004
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"viewshed" study that should prove, at last, that Fort Monroe isn't just a cherishable fortress surrounded by historic land so unimportant as to merit condos.
unknown title 2009
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As one winegrower told me last year: "They don't want a facility that interferes with their viewshed."
Death of the Dream 2009
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