hydrography

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hydrography

Wikipedia

Etymology

From hydro- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɒɡ.ɹə.fi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɑɡ.ɹə.fi/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
• Hyphenation: hy‧dro‧gra‧phy

Noun

hydrography (countable and uncountable, plural hydrographies)

1. (nautical) The scientific measurement and description of the physical features and conditions of navigable waters and the shoreline.
   • 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy‎, page 89:

     This small pond is not in the MDNR hydrography dataset but is part of a larger historical feature bisected by the Project Alignment noted in the MDNR hydrography data as a drained wetland.

Derived terms

• hydrographer
• hydrographic
• palaeohydrography
• paleohydrography

Translations

Measurement and description of navigable waters

Afrikaans: hidrografie Albanian: hidrografia f Armenian: ջրագրություն (hy) (ǰragrutʻyun) Asturian: hidrografía f Azerbaijani: hidroqrafiya Basque: hidrografia Bengali: জললেখবিজ্ঞান (jollekhbiggên) Bulgarian: хидрография f (hidrografija) Catalan: hidrografia f Chinese: Mandarin: 水文地理學 / 水文地理学 (shuǐwén dìlǐxué) Czech: vodopis m, hydrografie f Danish: hydrografi Dutch: hydrografie (nl) f Esperanto: hidrografio Estonian: hüdrograafia Finnish: hydrografia (fi) French: hydrographie (fr) f Galician: hidrografía (gl) f Georgian: ჰიდროგრაფია (hidrograpia) German: Hydrographie f Greek: υδρογραφία (el) f (ydrografía) Haitian Creole: idwografi Hebrew: הידרוגרפיה Hungarian: vízrajz (hu), hidrográfia (hu) Ido: hidrografio (io) Indonesian: hidrografi (id) Irish: hidreagrafaíocht f Italian: idrografia (it) f Japanese: 水路学 Kazakh: гидрография (gidrografiä) Khmer: ឧទកសាស្ត្រ (ʼŏtôkâsastrâ) Korean: 수로학(水路學) (ko) (surohak) Kyrgyz: гидрография (gidrografiya) Lithuanian: hidrografija f Luxembourgish: Hydrographie f Macedonian: хидрографија f (hidrografija) Malay: hidrografi Norwegian: hydrografi Persian: آب‌نگاری (fa) Polish: hydrografia (pl) f Portuguese: hidrografia (pt) f Romanian: hidrografie (ro) f Russian: гидрогра́фия (ru) f (gidrográfija) Serbo-Croatian: hidrografija (sh) f Sindhi: آبونگاري f (ābõgāre) Slovak: hydrogeografia f, vodopis m, hydrografia f Spanish: hidrografía (es) f Swedish: hydrografi (sv) f Tamil: நீராய்வியல் (nīrāyviyal) Thai: อุทกศาสตร์ (th) (ù-tók-gà-sàat) Turkish: hidrografya (tr) Ukrainian: гідрографія f (hidrohrafija) Uzbek: gidrografiya Vietnamese: thuỷ đạc học (水度學) Welsh: hydrograffeg

See also

• pilotage