Contour used in a sentence

Contour in a sentence as a noun

Extract some features from the contour of the leaf.

Multiplication may be a little harder but still it's a quick way to paint contour lines.

It gives you a 3D view and a contour map, and throws in a couple series expansion and the derivative.

To distinguish all of these cases, we estimate "curvature at a scale" at each point on the contour and build a histogram of curvature values.

Contour in a sentence as a verb

Then, I programmed the mill to trace out the contour of the leg while the lathe spun the wood underneath the mill head....> The legs of the instrument turned out to be a few inches too long for my wood lathe so I pulled the lathe out of the milling machine and cut it into two pieces on a band saw. I then bolted both pieces back into the mill, separated by a few inches.

The contour of the API in this case has a great deal to do with what goes over the wire: most critically, correctly-designed OpenGL ES programs will not retransmit static geometry to the GPU every single frame.

It's easy enough to create contour lines for tone using a camera obscura while you're tracing edges; it's something you can accomplish in a few minutes' work, and it's much less likely to be remarked upon by your sitting clients.