Look up contour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contour may refer to: Contour (linguistics), a phonetic sound Pitch contour Contour (camera system)...

A contour line (also isoline, isopleth, isoquant or isarithm) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value...

The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) was a NASA Discovery-class space probe that failed shortly after its July 2002 launch. It was the only Discovery mission...

of complex analysis, contour integration is a method of evaluating certain integrals along paths in the complex plane. Contour integration is closely...

Contouring is a makeup technique that uses cosmetics to define, enhance and sculpt the structure of the face or other body parts, such as breasts. Contouring...

Contour Airlines is an independent regional airline headquartered at Smyrna Airport in Smyrna, Tennessee, United States. Contour Airlines is set up as...

The Contours are an American rhythm and blues vocal group.that recorded for Motown Records .They are known their 1962 smash hit single "Do You Love Me"...

contour or contour tone is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word. Tone contours are...

Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines. These contour...

An equal-loudness contour is a measure of sound pressure level, over the frequency spectrum, for which a listener perceives a constant loudness when presented...

Illusory contours or subjective contours are visual illusions that evoke the perception of an edge without a luminance or color change across that edge...

In US broadcasting, service contour (or protected contour) refers to the area in which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) predicts coverage....

measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it. It is a measure...

Contour drawing is an art technique in which the artist sketches the style of the subject by drawing lines that result in a drawing that is essentially...

In mathematics, a Hankel contour is a path in the complex plane which extends from (+∞,δ), around the origin counter clockwise and back to (+∞,−δ), where...

Ford Telstar in a large portion of Asia and other markets, while the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in North...

detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but historically using a...

Contour length is a term used in molecular physics. The contour length of a polymer chain (a big molecule consisting of many similar smaller molecules)...

A contour canal is an artificially-dug navigable canal which closely follows the contour line of the land it traverses, in order to avoid costly engineering...

Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise, where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper. The artistic technique was introduced...

and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, contour describes speech sounds that behave as single segments but make an internal...

In mathematics, contour sets generalize and formalize the everyday notions of everything superior to something everything superior or equivalent to something...

Corporate Flight Management, Inc., doing business as Contour Aviation, is a multifaceted aviation services company based in Smyrna, Tennessee, United...

Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researched by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences...

contour, introduced by Camille Jordan (1887) and Leo Pochhammer (1890), is a contour in the complex plane with two points removed, used for contour integration...

complex analysis, the residue is a complex number proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities...

and music, the pitch contour of a sound is a function or curve that tracks the perceived pitch of the sound over time. Pitch contour may include multiple...

bottler's convention, Dean's contour bottle was chosen over other entries and was on the market the same year. By 1920, the contour bottle became the standard...

The pennaceous feather is a type of feather present in most modern birds and in some other species of maniraptoriform dinosaurs. A pennaceous feather has...

the currents flow along depth contours, hence called contour currents. Sediments deposited and shaped by the contour currents are called contourites...