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...

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

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

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...

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

The Contours is one of the early American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records. The group is best known for its classic chart-topping 1962 hit...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Terrain contour matching, or TERCOM, is a navigation system used primarily by cruise missiles. It uses a contour map of the terrain that is compared with...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Contour rivalry is an artistic technique used to create multiple possible visual interpretations of an image. An image may be viewed as depicting one...

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

Kontoor Brands is an American clothing company. It was a spin off from the VF Corporation in May 2019, and markets denim clothing under the Lee, Wrangler...