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hatchure

hatchure is the alternative form of hachure.

Meaning of hachure

Noun

hachure (plural hachures)

  1. (historical) A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.⁷
    • "The adjoining Fig. 1 shows a mountainous island with the hill slopes indicated by a method of Hill-shading called 'hachures'. These hachures are lines indicating the direction of the slope. Where the slopes are steep the lines are thick and close together, making a dark shade; when the slopes are...1990, Oxford University Press, The Oxford School Atlas (27th Edition), page 9, recto

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Forms of hatchure

Noun
pluralhatchures
Verb
third-person singular presenthatchures
present participlehatchuring
past participlehatchured
pasthatchured

Questions about hatchure

What is hatchure the alternative form of?
Hatchure is the alternative form of hachure.

Words near hatchure in the dictionary

  1. hatchman
  2. hatchmen
  3. hatchment
  4. hatchments
  5. hatcht
  6. hatchure
  7. hatchures
  8. Hatchville
  9. hatchway
  10. hatchwayman
  11. hatchwaymen

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