Area symbol

Area symbol

A continuous and distinctive shading, tone, or repetitive pattern used on a map to cover a part representing a region where a particular phenomenon occurs, or to which a particular value is assigned.

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Industry/Domain: Earth science
Category: Mapping science
Company: American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
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area symbol

Earth science; Mapping science

A continuous and distinctive shading, tone, or repetitive pattern used on a map to cover a part representing a region where a particular phenomenon occurs, or to which a ...

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Aviation; General aviation

The number of square inches (or feet) of the wing. It's the wingspan multiplied by the wing's chord. The area of a tapered wing is the wingspan multiplied by the average chord.

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Printing & publishing; Publishing

See semiotics, glyph, graphics, sign language, prose, verse, rhetorical forms.

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Art history; Visual arts

Something that represents something else, whether by resembling it or by being related to it through cultural associations. Often symbols are material objects or images that stand ...

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Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

Something that can represent something distant from it in time and space.

symbol

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A thing, such as a word, that can represent something else that is not here and now. The meaning of a symbol is arbitrary and is given by those who use it. Human languages are ...

subtropical

Earth science; Mapping science

Relating to the warmest region of the Temperate Zones that border on the Torrid Zone.

sky

Earth science; Mapping science

The region above and beyond the Earth, as it is seen looking up from the ground. Sky looks blue during the day and dark at night.

South Pole

Earth science; Mapping science

The most southern point of the Earth. The South Pole is the southern end of the axis on which the Earth rotates.

prime meridian

Earth science; Mapping science

The line of longitude that passes through the town of Greenwich, England, and that measures 0 degree. It is the line from which other longitude lines are measured.

planet

Earth science; Mapping science

A celestial body revolving around a sun in a nearly circular orbit. This definition excludes comets, which have highly elliptical orbits. However, it may also exclude some of ...

area of error

Earth science; Mapping science

A figure within which the true location of a point whose location has been determined by measurement is believed to lie, with stated degree of probability.

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