Dictionary Entry
contour
contour is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
- 2noun
The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.
- 3noun
any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
"he could barely make out their shapes"
- 4noun
a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
"the contours of the melody"
"it defines a major contour of this administration"
- 5noun
a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
- 6verb
form the contours of
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