morphometry
(mɔːˈfɒmɪtrɪ)
[f. Gr. µορϕ-ή form + -metry.]
The art or process of measuring the external form of objects, esp. in Geomorphol.
| 1856 in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1898 Nature 13 Jan. 256/1 Dr. Wilhelm Halbfass has worked out in detail the morphometry of the Lake of Geneva. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ii. 168 (heading) Morphometry of lakes over 400 m. deep. 1958 Geogr. Jrnl. CXXIV. 370 (heading) Aspects of the morphometry of a ‘poly-cyclic’ drainage basin. 1961 Geomorphological Abstr. Sept. 33 Earlier work showing the dominance of rock type in pebble morphometry is strongly supported. 1963 E. R. Weibel (title) Morphometry of the human lung. 1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms i. 4 Quantification is applied..to landscape forms, giving rise to the branch of modern geomorphology known as ‘morphometry’. |
Hence morphoˈmetrical a., pertaining to or connected with morphometry.
| 1856 in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1935 Geol. Mag. LXXII. 183 Its [sc. the clinographic curve's] utility in delicate morphometrical determinations seems to me undoubted. 1935 Biometrika XXVII. 465 (heading) Morphometrical indices. 1953 Anti-Locust Bull. XVI. (heading on title-p.) Morphometrical studies on phases of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forskål). |