34. Isohypse, noun. A synonym for contour line: a line connecting points of equal elevation on a map. (In meteorology, the term refers specifically to lines of constant height on a chart where every point also shares equal atmospheric pressure.) From Greek iso, “equal, the same,” + hypsos, “height, loftiness.” I lean over the table and peer at the map. They look like veins, these lines that knot together when the going’s hard and splay when land is gentled. It’s easy, having viewed them thus, to squint and see contusions on some weathered body’s sheeny skin: the once-young Earth gone papery and bruised.

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34. Isohypse, noun. A synonym for contour line: a line connecting points of equal elevation on a map. (In meteorology, the term refers specifically to lines of constant height on a chart where every point also shares equal atmospheric pressure.)


From Greek iso, “equal, the same,” + hypsos, “height, loftiness.”


I lean over the table and peer at the map. They look like veins, these lines that knot together when the going’s hard and splay when land is gentled. It’s easy, having viewed them thus, to squint and see contusions on some weathered body’s sheeny skin: the once-young Earth gone papery and bruised.

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