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Contour ploughing mitigates soil erosion by ploughing across a slope, along elevation lines.
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Contour and ploughing
* Contour plowing ( or ploughing ), an agricultural technique
Contour plowing ( or contour ploughing ) or contour farming is the farming practice of ploughing across a slope following its elevation contour lines.
Contour and soil
Contour plowing can increase crop yields from 10 to 50 percent, partially as a result from greater soil retention.
Contour and by
This screenshot is of a structure map generated by Contour map software for an 8500ft deep gas & Oil reservoir in the Erath field, Vermilion Parish, Erath, Louisiana.
The Contour SVT was available primarily by special order by specially designated Ford dealerships.
This engine, first unveiled in the Mondeo's North American cousin, the Ford Contour, is characterized by its smooth operation, chain-driven camshafts and an ability to operate using only half its 24 valves at low engine speeds.
There is however another theory advanced by some motoring journalists: because the Contour and Mystique were not created in the United States, they suffered from a lack of enthusiasm from inside Ford's North American operations.
* Contour Crafting-under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of ISI
The Stratocaster's sleek, contoured body shape ( officially referred to by Fender as the " Comfort Contour Body " ) differed from the flat, slab-like design of the Telecaster.
* Jama Contour is a software package, produced by Jama Software
* Contour drawing, an artistic style ( produced, for example, by blind contour drawing )
It was often compared to other small mid-sizes such as the Chevrolet Malibu, and judged roomier than the Ford Contour by many magazines such as Consumer Reports.
Contour crafting is a construction process under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute ( in the Viterbi School of Engineering ) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently without manual labor.
Screenshot of a structure map generated by Contour map software for an 8500ft deep gas & Oil reservoir in the Erath field, Vermilion Parish, Erath, Louisiana.
and was replaced in 1994 by the " world car platform " Ford Contour.
It was succeeded by the Contour, a derivative of the European Ford Mondeo.
These headphones use patented Contour Ear Gels, invented by Mark Blanchard of Klipsch Group, which are anatomically designed to accurately fit inside the human ear canal.
Contour bunding has been widely adopted in Burkina Faso after it was suggested by British Oxfam worker Bill Hereford in the beginning of the 1980s.
Contour stripping is often followed by auger mining into the hillside, to remove more of the mineral.
Contour farming was practiced by the ancient Phoenicians, and is known to be effective for slopes between two and ten percent.
It is a common misconception that the Poly tones are not affected by the Contour settings.
When the Contour ( Envelope ) is triggered by the LFO, it allows for periodic LFO-type waves to be applied to the VCF or VCA, depending on the Rise-and Fall-times.
* Themefinder allows searching musical themes by Parsons Code ( called " Gross Contour " on the search page ).
For Zodiac, this first major international diversification — strengthened by the purchase of Pioneer ( 1988 ), Weber Aircraft LLC ( 1992 ), Sicma Aero Seat, and Contour Aerospace ( 2011 )— heralded the start of a new entrepreneurial adventure.
Contour and slope
#* Contour slope – describes the tendency of the frequency change over time, it can be rising, falling or level.
Contour and along
The initial generation of the Mondeo was developed as a " world car ", along with North American models marketed as the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique until 2000, and as the Ford Fusion from model year 2013 and on.
Contour and elevation
The Mk II saw almost every external panel replaced, becoming in every respect, other than the rear elevation, the same as the American Contour.
Contour lines and triangulated irregular networks ( TIN ) are used to represent elevation or other continuously changing values.
Contour lines may be either traced on a visible three-dimensional model of the surface, as when a photogrammetrist viewing a stereo-model plots elevation contours, or interpolated from estimated surface elevations, as when a computer program threads contours through a network of observation points of area centroids.
Contour map labeled aesthetically in an " elevation up " manner.
Contour and lines
Contour lines are curves that connect contiguous points of the same altitude ( isohypse ).
* Functions are easy to produce, visualize and interpret, due to the pictorial nature of the graph of a function ( i. e. curves, Contour lines, and surfaces ).
Contour lines may also have points of higher order ( triple points, etc.
Contour lines around a saddle point
Contour lines are curved or straight lines on a map describing the intersection of a real or hypothetical surface with one or more horizontal planes.
Contour lines form a V-shape on the map, pointing upstream.
In this image, red lines are Contour line # Temperature and related subjects | isotherms, solid green lines are the potential temperature, and dashed green lines are the equivalent potential temperature ; these three all use the temperature scale at the horizontal 1000 mb level near the bottom.
The blue lines are the Contour line # Barometric pressure | isobars ( scale on the left side ) and the dashed purple lines are the saturated Humidity # Mixing ratio / Humidity ratio | humidity mixing ratio ( scale inside the graph, near the right ).
Contour and .
Contour plot of the Electrostatics # Electrostatic potential | electrostatic potential of a horizontally oriented electrical dipole of finite size.
Shown as a colored Contour line | contour plot is the z-component of the field.
Contour and pattern are more in the province of the linear artists, while dynamism is the most common trait of painterly works.
* Discussion of Emperor Jones from Travus Bogard's book Contour in Time, on O ' Neill.
Boundary for 20 ° C Contour line | isotherms.
For example, some of Raquel Welch's titles included " Maid of San Diego County ", " Maid of California " " Miss Photogenic " and " Miss Contour.
This caused many major sites such as the Warwick Mall, Contour Dental Laboratories, and the CLCF Building to be shut down and repaired.
Contour canals require only a small water supply since no water is lost to locks, but this method of construction would make the canal longer than it need have been.
* Contour powder / creams, used to define the face.
Figure 2: Contour map of Figure 1.
Contour Aerospace opened a new factory in Cwmbran in 2000, and employ 1000 people manufacturing aircraft seats.
* Deutsch, D. Hamaoui, K. Henthorn, T. The Glissando Illusion: A Spatial Illusory Contour in Hearing.
The Ford Contour, and its sister, the Mercury Mystique, were compact cars that were derived from the first-generation, globally marketed Ford Mondeo.
The Contour and Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in the U. S., and were based on Ford's CDW27 platform.
Development of the European Mondeo and its derivatives, the Contour and Mystique, was a major project for Ford Motor Company.
Initially, three trim levels were available for the Contour a base GL, a more luxurious LX and a sporty SE.
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