| 单词 | layer tint |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslayer tint layer tint n. Cartography a layer colour, or a tint of such a colour; so layer tinting, layer-tinted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > map colouring > layer system or shading > layer tint or colour layer tint1918 layer colour1922 1918 V. S. Bryant & T. H. Hughes Map Work v. 84 In high country the layer tints become so dark as to obscure all detail. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 842/1 The hypsometric, or ‘layer’ tints, which show the successive altitudes of the terrain. 1934 J. Bygott Introd. Mapwork & Pract. Geogr. iv. 21 Certain layer-tinted Ordnance maps, especially the layered quarter-inch and half-inch maps. 1952 H. C. Brookfield in G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xvi. 184 The O.S. 1/63,360 Fifth (Relief) Edition, first published in 1929, employed contours at 50-ft. intervals... There was also layer tinting in buff, the tint changing at each 500 ft. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) II. 534/2 On small-scale maps..the intervals are frequently layer-tinted from green to brown. 1969 Geography LIV. 198 Relief is shown by contour and layer tint. 1971 G. R. P. Lawrence Cartogr. Methods ii. 24 Colour has been used in the depiction of relief for a number of years in the method known as ‘layer tinting’. < as lemmas |
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