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topographic profile

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topographic profile [¦täp·ə¦graf·ik ′prō‚fīl]
(geology)


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For artists it provided an opportunity to experiment with colour and light, for naturalists like Charles Darwin it opened a window onto the tropical sublime, while for maritime surveyors its topographic profile provided a exemplary suite of coastal forms.
Therefore, these bullets may be characterized by their topographic profile signatures, machined on the land engraved areas and measured, for example, with a stylus instrument.
This mechanism allows the use of existing thin-film metrology equipment, such as spectroscopic ellipsometers, to accurately extract topographic profile information from one-dimensional (1-D) periodic structures.
 
 
 
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