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noun

Hydrography n.

The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.

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Etymology of 'Hydrography'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hydrography" Quotes from Famous Books

... that if seamen, as a class, had been superstitious, they would never have done for science what they have done. And what they have done, all the world knows. To seamen, and to men connected with the sea, what do we not owe, in geography, hydrography, meteorology, astronomy, natural history? At the present moment, the world owes them large improvements in dynamics, and in the new uses of steam and iron. It may be fairly said that the mariner has done more toward the knowledge of Nature than any other personage ...

— Discipline and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

Words linked to "Hydrography" : hydrographical, oceanography