contour line

Summary

contour line ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,588 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• contour line is a type of curve^[2].
• contour line is a type of plot^[3].
• contour line is a type of level set^[4].
• contour line is a type of line^[5].
• contour line is used for union^[6].
• contour line is used for cartography^[7].
• contour line's Commons category is recorded as Contour lines^[8].
• contour line's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Contour lines^[9].
• contour line's described at URL is recorded as https://phrontistery.info/contour.html^[10].
• contour line's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia^[11].
• contour line's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[12].
• contour line's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[13].
• contour line's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4^[14].
• contour line's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/contour^[15].
• contour line's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'grc', 'text': 'ἴσογράμμα'}^[16].
• contour line's different from is recorded as contour line^[17].
• contour line's studied by is recorded as geology^[18].
• contour line's studied by is recorded as climatology^[19].
• contour line's studied by is recorded as topography^[20].
• contour line's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[21].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include curve^[2], plot^[3], level set^[4], and line^[5].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include union^[6] and cartography^[7].

Why It Matters

contour line ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,588 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[22] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[23]