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The term contour currents was first introduced by Heezen et al in 1966 as bottom currents along the continental shelf driven by Coriolis effects and temperature/salinity
Contour_currents
Airline of the United States
Contour Airlines is an independent regional airline headquartered at Smyrna Airport in Smyrna, Tennessee, United States. Contour Airlines is set up as
Contour_Airlines
Underwater current of sediment-laden water moving downslope
cables in vulnerable areas. When turbidity currents interact with regular ocean currents, such as contour currents, they can change their direction. This
Turbidity_current
northward currents are observed along the eastern margin, which also form an overall clockwise circulation pattern. The northward moving contour currents on
Rockall–Porcupine_margin
Vertical measurement of the independence of a summit
relative height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it. It is a measure
Topographic_prominence
Farming practice
Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines. These contour
Contour_plowing
Directional mass flow of oceanic water
Depth contours, shoreline configurations, and interactions with other currents influence a current's direction and strength. Ocean currents move both
Ocean_current
Visual illusion evoking an edge
An illusory contour or subjective contour is a visual illusion that evokes the perception of an edge without a luminance or color change across that edge
Illusory_contour
Aviation services company in the United States
Corporate Flight Management, Inc., doing business as Contour Aviation, is an aviation services company based in Smyrna, Tennessee, United States. It started
Contour_Aviation
Frequency characteristics of hearing and perceived volume
An equal-loudness contour is a measure of sound pressure level, over the frequency spectrum, for which a listener perceives a constant loudness when presented
Equal-loudness_contour
Sedimentary deposit produced by thermohaline-induced deepwater bottom currents
derived from thermohaline-induced geostrophic bottom-currents that flow parallel to bathymetric contours. They did this to emphasise the difference between
Contourite
North-flowing current in the northwest Pacific Ocean
seasonal variability. The Kuroshio Current splits into Kuroshio Current extension and the Tsushima Current, as the currents wrap around Japanese Island and
Kuroshio_Current
Accumulated material on seafloor
seminal paper demonstrated the very significant effects of contour-following bottom currents in shaping sedimentation on the deep continental rise off
Marine_sediment
Geologic region in Antarctica
foot. This unit is deposited from contour currents, and differences in clast size is attributed to shifting current conditions. The subduction event between
Bransfield_Basin
Ocean current with dynamics determined by the presence of a coastline
currents are ocean currents with dynamics determined by the presence of a coastline, and fall into two distinct categories: western boundary currents
Boundary_current
Production of voltage by a varying magnetic field
magnetic field, will have circular currents induced within them by induction, called eddy currents. Eddy currents flow in closed loops in planes perpendicular
Electromagnetic_induction
Austrian and American bodybuilder, actor and politician (born 1947)
on September 16, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2019. Salim, Zia (2019). "The Contours of Creativity: Public Art, Cultural Landscapes, and Urban Space in Venice
Arnold_Schwarzenegger
electric currents due to the motion of convection currents of a mixture of molten iron and nickel in Earth's outer core: these convection currents are caused
Earth's_magnetic_field
Change in sea level due to gravity
zone; ebbing. Oscillating currents produced by tides are known as tidal streams or tidal currents. The moment that the tidal current ceases is called slack
Tide
Large piece of cloth designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators
light-absorbing material (In North America, for example, heavyweight velour is the current industry standard). Theater drapes represent a portion of any production's
Theater drapes and stage curtains
Theater_drapes_and_stage_curtains
Musical artist
for being the lead singer and the founder of the R&B band the Contours in 1959. The Contours are best known for the 1962 hit single, "Do You Love Me". Joseph
Joe_Billingslea
Country in South Asia
these mountains, as does the part of the Indus-Yarlung suture zone, the contour along which the Indian Plate has welded to the Eurasian plate. Mount Kailash
India
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
by Austin Henry Layard in the mid-19th century. His citadel plan shows contours which would be consistent with Sennacherib's garden, but its position has
Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon
American airline
Advanced Air Air Flamenco Aleutian Airways Bering Air Boutique Air Cape Air Contour Airlines Denver Air Connection Gem Air Grant Aviation Island Airways JSX
Breeze_Airways
Studio, Contour) With six effects (Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, High‑Key Mono) With five effects (Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage
List_of_iPhone_models
Natural processes removing soil and rock
sediment-laden water that move rapidly downslope as turbidity currents. Where erosion by turbidity currents creates oversteepened slopes it can also trigger underwater
Erosion
Musical composition for human voice with pitches and melodies
an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a
Song
American long-range, subsonic cruise missile
variety of guidance systems, including GPS, inertial navigation, and terrain contour matching. Over a dozen variants and upgraded versions have been developed
Tomahawk_missile
Spintronics-related effect
insulator case is easier to visualize due to the presence of a single Fermi contour; therefore, this case is discussed first. Topological insulators display
Rashba–Edelstein_effect
Most populous city in Canada
5, 2007. Retrieved February 14, 2008. Fortin, Marcel (2002). "Toronto Contours 1 metre intervals". Archived from the original on October 17, 2025. Retrieved
Toronto
2008 desktop environment
It has been succeeded by KDE Plasma Mobile starting with KDE Plasma 5. Contour was the name of an interface for tablet devices. Its development was started
KDE_Plasma_4
Type of sediment wave
wave, and are created when supercritical sediment-laden water (turbidity currents) travels downslope through sediment beds. Each "step" has a steep drop
Cyclic_steps
American actress and model (1940–2023)
companies. At age 14, she won beauty titles as Miss Photogenic and Miss Contour. While attending La Jolla High School she won the title of Miss La Jolla
Raquel_Welch
hands being situated above the shoulders. A baseball bat is a smooth contoured round wooden or metal rod used to hit the ball thrown by the pitcher.
Glossary_of_baseball_terms
Narrow, southward-flowing ocean current along the southeastern coast of the Philippines
the Mindanao Current is critical in the circulation within the whole Pacific basin. However, in comparison with other boundary currents in the North Pacific
Mindanao_Current
clients Poll sponsored by the Montana Free Press Poll commissioned by Contours Inc. Poll commissioned by The Majority Institute, a research firm that
2026 United States Senate election in Montana
2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Montana
Two circular coil device which creates a homogeneous magnetic field
consists of two electromagnets on the same axis, carrying an equal electric current in the same direction. Besides creating magnetic fields, Helmholtz coils
Helmholtz_coil
Revolver cartridge
slightly modified the Sharpe bullet shape while retaining its overall contour. The final choice of bullet was thus based on the earlier bullet designs
.357_Magnum
by more than 100 m (330 ft) on different maps, while even very thorough current measurements of Mount Everest range from 8,840 m (29,003 ft) to 8,849 m
List of highest mountains on Earth
List_of_highest_mountains_on_Earth
Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Levene 2018, pp. 45–65, "[p. 59] It is within this framework that the contours of the ethnic cleansing not only in Palestine but also, almost simultaneously
Nakba
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, tone is the use of pitch contour, pitch register, or both to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that
Tone_(linguistics)
Theory of perception
perception—including facts about the perception of movement, the perception of contour, perceptual constancy, and perceptual illusions. Wertheimer's discovery
Gestalt_psychology
frame-by-frame evolution of a contour advected over several days. The figure to the right shows the length of this contour as a function of time. The link
Chaotic_mixing
Series of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs)
double-five-spoke 20-inch wheels, Burmester Hi-Fi stereo system, and active multi-contour seats in two-tone Manufaktur leather. The headliner, luggage compartment
Mercedes-Benz_G-Class
of contrast and motion, control of eye movements, detection of visual contours, and recognition of faces or facial expressions. The specificity of many
Visual processing abnormalities in schizophrenia
Visual_processing_abnormalities_in_schizophrenia
2023 smartphone by Apple
of the device's outer shell since the iPhone 12 Pro in 2020, with soft contours added to the flat sides. Additionally, the enclosure of the iPhone 15 Pro
IPhone_15_Pro
Seismic intensity scale used to quantify the degree of shaking during earthquakes
measured for the same earthquake. These values can be displayed best using a contoured map of equal intensity, known as an isoseismal map. However, each earthquake
Modified Mercalli intensity scale
Modified_Mercalli_intensity_scale
Family of text editors
re-bound. Hardware solutions include special keyboards such as Kinesis's Contoured Keyboard, which places the modifier keys where they can easily be operated
Emacs
Use of color to mark elevation in a map
between contour lines to indicate elevation. These tints are shown as bands of color in a graduated scheme or as a color scheme applied to contour lines
Hypsometric_tints
Mountain in Tanzania, highest in Africa
(330 ft) contour intervals; it included inset maps of Kibo and Mawenzi on 1:20,000 and 1:30,000 scales respectively and with 50 m (160 ft) contour intervals
Mount_Kilimanjaro
Marvel Studios film
Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times said, "Within the familiar narrative contours of the origin story, writer-director Scott Derrickson crams in enough out-of-body
Doctor_Strange_(2016_film)
2023 film by Zack Snyder
the film 1/5 stars, writing, "the finished product has only the vaguest contours of ambition, diminished by a half-assedness dinkifying the latest CGI-jammed
Rebel_Moon
2021 American dystopian fiction miniseries
feel as though they’ve been tailored specifically to the present and the contours of one’s own private heart. ... Music, theater, and literature can provide
Station_Eleven_(miniseries)
including ARPANET pioneers Robert Metcalfe and Yogen Dalal, shared the basic contours of their research with colleagues at TCP and Internet working group meetings
History_of_the_Internet
Concept in non-equilibrium physics
{\displaystyle X(t)} with a contour-ordered operator X ( c ) {\displaystyle X(c)} , such that c {\displaystyle c} parametrizes the contour path on the time axis
Keldysh_formalism
Series of pickup trucks manufactured by Ford
The most popular version of the model line is the F-150 pickup truck, currently in its fourteenth generation (introduced for the 2021 model year). From
Ford_F-Series
Physical quantity in electromagnetism
law with an arbitrary choice of contour provided the displacement current density term is added to the conduction current density (the Ampère-Maxwell equation):
Displacement_current_density
American ultra-low-cost airline
Advanced Air Air Flamenco Aleutian Airways Bering Air Boutique Air Cape Air Contour Airlines Denver Air Connection Gem Air Grant Aviation Island Airways JSX
Allegiant_Air
Visual impairment
colors, leading to a blurred and grainy visual experience without clear contours. Cones, responsible for color perception and detail, are activated in brighter
Visual_snow_syndrome
Brazilian association football club
with the initials SCI in red over a white background, without the red contour that appeared shortly afterward. In the Fifties, the colors were inverted
SC_Internacional
Ancient capital of China
flooding from the Wei River. The entire city was sited below the 400 m contour line which the Tang dynasty used to mark the edge of the floodplain. Twelve
Chang'an
Ocean eddies in Labrador Sea which influence deep convection
positive phase, this leads to stronger currents in the WGC and other boundary currents. The larger WGC current increases the available EKE for IR generation
Irminger_Rings
Political ideology promoting free-market capitalism
York: Random House. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-59691-598-5. Pollin, Robert (2003). Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity
Neoliberalism
Proportion of salt dissolved in water
in turn are important for understanding ocean currents and heat exchange with the atmosphere. A contour line of constant salinity is called an isohaline
Salinity
2024 film by Brady Corbet
"plays both better and worse on a second viewing, because the blatant contours of the plot are less jarring." The New Yorker's Richard Brody was more
The_Brutalist
Airport in Dulles, Virginia, United States
the airport had three long runways (current day runways 1C/19C, 1R/19L, and 12/30) and one shorter one (where current taxiway Q is located). Its original
Dulles_International_Airport
undergone expansion and transformation keeping pace with the changing contour of Technical Education in the Country. With its added length, breadth and
New Government Polytechnic, Patna-13
New_Government_Polytechnic,_Patna-13
Study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors
navigation, and usually show seafloor relief or terrain as contour lines (called depth contours or isobaths) and selected depths (soundings), and typically
Bathymetry
Meditation-based school of Mahāyāna Buddhism
Tang dynasty c. 618–907 CE). In this phase Chan took its first clear contours. Prime figures are the fifth patriarch Daman Hongren (601–674), his dharma-heir
Zen
City walls of ancient Babylon
beginning of the German excavations in 1899, as is clear from the excavators' contour plan of the site (Wetzel 1930: pl. 1) which they drew up before beginning
Walls_of_Babylon
Earth's highest mountain
of the Indian Plate during the Cenozoic collision of India with Asia. Current interpretations argue that the Qomolangma and North Col formations consist
Mount_Everest
United States airline (1927–1991)
tides. During the day, use of the compass while judging drift from sea currents was normal procedure; at night, all flight crews were trained to use celestial
Pan_Am
System to capture, manage, and present geographic data
map with isopleth or contour lines that indicate differing amounts of rainfall. Such a map can be thought of as a rainfall contour map. Many sophisticated
Geographic_information_system
International airport serving Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Action News. March 25, 2026. Retrieved March 25, 2026. Contour Airlines (March 17, 2026). "Contour Airlines Announces New Nonstop Service From Page, Arizona
Harry Reid International Airport
Harry_Reid_International_Airport
American political party
Party ... Corporate governance reform fit surprisingly well within the contours of the center-left ideology. The Democratic Party and the SPD have both
Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic_Party_(United_States)
American car (1908–1927)
relocated significantly behind the firewall and joined with a compound-contoured cowl panel. In these years electric headlights replaced carbide headlights
Ford_Model_T
Failure of the brain to process input from one eye
well as spatial distortion, abnormal spatial interactions, and impaired contour detection. In addition, individuals with amblyopia have binocular abnormalities
Amblyopia
Region of North Africa; the western half of the Arab world
Europe. p. 25. ISBN 92-871-2611-9. Angus Maddison (20 September 2007). Contours of the World Economy 1–2030 AD:Essays in Macro-Economic History: Essays
Maghreb
Artificial water basin for swimming
in Japan). There is often a mid-depth seating or lounging system, and contoured lounger style reclining seats are common. Upmarket spas often include
Swimming_pool
Theory that discusses human intelligence from an epistemological perspective
(assimilate) an apple as an apple, one must first focus (accommodate) on the contour of this object. To do this, one needs to roughly recognize the size of
Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development
Temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece
the figures' heads, in the limitation of the corporal movements to the contours and not to the muscles, and in the presence of pronounced veins in the
Parthenon
American professional soccer club based in Philadelphia metropolitan area
gold stars represent the original Thirteen Colonies, while the shield's contour derives from the Philadelphia coat of arms. The rattlesnake pays homage
Philadelphia_Union
American record label
(though it was originally called "Miracle") featured the Temptations, the Contours, Edwin Starr, and Martha and the Vandellas. A fourth, V.I.P., released
Motown
Visual art consisting of moving images
others, would create many more chronophotography studies. Muybridge had the contours of dozens of his chronophotographic series traced onto glass discs and
Film
States VHT Corporate Flight International VEGAS HEAT United States LF VTE Contour Airlines VOLUNTEER United States CJI Corporate Jets SEA JET United States
List_of_airline_codes
Global climate phenomenon
Pacific, also showing eastern Pacific Ocean currents going to the opposite direction compared to the currents in traditional La Niñas. Coined by the Peruvian
El_Niño–Southern_Oscillation
Imperial Russian five-shot, bolt-action military rifle
barrels could be found in both standard Mosin–Nagant 1891 contour and in a heavier contour designed for improved accuracy, while all German-produced barrels
Mosin–Nagant
Number, approximately 3.14
the Chern–Weil homomorphism. One of the key tools in complex analysis is contour integration of a function over a positively oriented (rectifiable) Jordan
Pi
Equation to derive time of sunset and sunrise
Almanac for Sun, Moon, and Polaris V1.11 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Current Atmospheric Refraction Models in Predicting Sunrise and Sunset Times
Sunrise_equation
Airline of the United States
American Airlines Bahamasair British Airways Cape Air Cathay Pacific Condor Contour Airlines Fiji Airways Finnair Hainan Airlines Hawaiian Airlines Iberia
Alaska_Airlines
U.S. state
2018. Retrieved June 13, 2019. Baranoski, Mark T. (2013). "Structure Contour Map on the Precambrian Unconformity Surface in Ohio and Related Basement
Ohio
Awareness of facts, or competency
June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022. Klenke, Karin (2014). "Sculpting the Contours of the Qualitative Landscape of Leadership Research". In Day, David (ed
Knowledge
Airport in Denver, Colorado, United States
Aviacionline. February 22, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2025. Airlines, Contour. "Contour Airlines Announces New Nonstop Service From Carlsbad, NM to Albuquerque
Denver_International_Airport
Sports car by Toyota, 1970 to 2006
switches were mounted on the center console to reduce costs. Rear seats were contoured for only 2 passengers and can split down 50/50 to increase cargo capacity
Toyota_Celica
Greek rebellion against the Ottoman Empire (1821–1829)
S2CID 143901738. Trent, James (2012). The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth Century American Reform. University of Massachusetts Press
Greek_War_of_Independence
Fractal named after mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot
produces results like the following, gradients with distinct edges and contours as the boundaries are approached. The animations serve to highlight the
Mandelbrot_set
Austroasiatic language
differences between dialects, mostly in the pitch contour and phonation type. The table above shows the pitch contour of each tone using Chao tone number notation
Vietnamese_language
2012 film by Christopher Nolan
skull to design the mask, allowing the mask to perfectly conform to the contours of Hardy's face. Hemming personally designed Bane's coat, which took two
The_Dark_Knight_Rises
Ontario, Canada, that do not follow the city grid, often referred to as contour roads or diagonal roads. They are listed by type of road, then alphabetically
List of contour roads in Toronto
List_of_contour_roads_in_Toronto
Compact executive car
executive sedan. The sedan's exterior design featured sleeker, coupé-like contours, a fastback profile, and a repeated arrowhead motif in the front fascia
Lexus_IS
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