Dictionary entry

Topography

Webster's Dictionary 1913

To‐pog″ra‐phy (?), n. [F. topographie, Gr. �; � a place + � to write.] The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

Topography, as the description of particular places, is distinguished from chorography, the description of a region or a district, and for geography, the description of the earth or of countries. Brande & C.