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morphometry|mɔːˈfɒmɪtrɪ|
[f. Gr. µορϕ-ή form + -metry.]
The art or process of measuring the external form of objects, esp. in Geomorphol.
1856in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1898Nature 13 Jan. 256/1 Dr. Wilhelm Halbfass has worked out in detail the morphometry of the Lake of Geneva. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ii. 168 (heading) Morphometry of lakes over 400 m. deep. 1958Geogr. Jrnl. CXXIV. 370 (heading) Aspects of the morphometry of a ‘poly-cyclic’ drainage basin. 1961Geomorphological Abstr. Sept. 33 Earlier work showing the dominance of rock type in pebble morphometry is strongly supported. 1963E. R. Weibel (title) Morphometry of the human lung. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms i. 4 Quantification is applied..to landscape forms, giving rise to the branch of modern geomorphology known as ‘morphometry’.
Hence morphoˈmetrical a., pertaining to or connected with morphometry.
1856in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1935Geol. Mag. LXXII. 183 Its [sc. the clinographic curve's] utility in delicate morphometrical determinations seems to me undoubted. 1935Biometrika XXVII. 465 (heading) Morphometrical indices. 1953Anti-Locust Bull. XVI. (heading on title-p.) Morphometrical studies on phases of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forskål). |