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HACHURE (French for " hatching ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HACHURE (
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French for " hatching ")  , the
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term for the conventional lines used in
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hill or
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mountain shading upon a
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map (q.v.) to indicate the slope of the
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surface, the
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depth of shading being greatest where the slope is steepest . The method is less accurate than that of
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contour lines, but gives an indication of the trend and extent of a range or mountain
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system, especially upon small-
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scale maps .

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