hydrography

English

Etymology

From hydro- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɒɡ.ɹə.fi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɑɡ.ɹə.fi/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
• Hyphenation: hy‧dro‧gra‧phy

Noun

hydrography (countable and uncountable, plural hydrographies)

1. (nautical) The scientific measurement and description of the physical features and conditions of navigable waters and the shoreline.
   • 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy‎^[1], page 89:

     This small pond is not in the MDNR hydrography dataset but is part of a larger historical feature bisected by the Project Alignment noted in the MDNR hydrography data as a drained wetland.

Derived terms

• hydrographer
• hydrographic
• palaeohydrography
• paleohydrography

Translations

Measurement and description of navigable waters

• Afrikaans: hidrografie
• Albanian: hidrografia f
• Armenian: ջրագրություն (hy) (ǰragrutʻyun)
• Asturian: hidrografía f
• Azerbaijani: hidroqrafiya
• Basque: hidrografia
• Bengali: জললেখবিজ্ঞান (jollekhbiggên)
• Bulgarian: хидрография f (hidrografija)
• Catalan: hidrografia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水文地理學 / 水文地理学 (shuǐwén dìlǐxué)

• Czech: vodopis m, hydrografie f
• Danish: hydrografi
• Dutch: hydrografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: hidrografio
• Estonian: hüdrograafia
• Finnish: hydrografia (fi)
• French: hydrographie (fr) f
• Galician: hidrografía (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰიდროგრაფია (hidrograpia)
• German: Hydrographie f
• Greek: υδρογραφία (el) f (ydrografía)
• Haitian Creole: idwografi
• Hebrew: הידרוגרפיה
• Hungarian: vízrajz (hu), hidrográfia (hu)
• Ido: hidrografio (io)
• Indonesian: hidrografi (id)
• Irish: hidreagrafaíocht f
• Italian: idrografia (it) f
• Japanese: 水路学
• Kazakh: гидрография (gidrografiä)
• Khmer: ឧទកសាស្ត្រ (ʼŏtôkâsastrâ)
• Korean: 수로학(水路學) (ko) (surohak)
• Kyrgyz: гидрография (gidrografiya)
• Lithuanian: hidrografija f
• Luxembourgish: Hydrographie f
• Macedonian: хидрографија f (hidrografija)
• Malay: hidrografi
• Norwegian: hydrografi
• Persian: آب‌نگاری (fa)
• Polish: hydrografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: hidrografia (pt) f
• Romanian: hidrografie (ro) f
• Russian: гидрогра́фия (ru) f (gidrográfija)
• Serbo-Croatian: hidrografija (sh) f
• Sindhi: آبونگاري f (ābõgāre)
• Slovak: hydrogeografia f, vodopis m, hydrografia f
• Spanish: hidrografía (es) f
• Swedish: hydrografi (sv) f
• Tamil: நீராய்வியல் (nīrāyviyal)
• Thai: อุทกศาสตร์ (th) (ù-tók-gà-sàat)
• Turkish: hidrografya (tr)
• Ukrainian: гідрографія f (hidrohrafija)
• Uzbek: gidrografiya
• Vietnamese: thuỷ đạc học (水度學)
• Welsh: hydrograffeg

See also

• pilotage