different between hachure vs octothorpe
hachure
English
Etymology
From French hachure (“crosshatching”), from hacher (“to hatch”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hæ??j??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hæ????/
Noun
hachure (plural hachures)
- (cartography, chiefly historical) A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.
Usage notes
- Unlike contour lines, hachures are drawn in the direction of the slope and their thickness and closeness is used to represent the relief with shading. They are no longer used on most modern maps.
Translations
Verb
hachure (third-person singular simple present hachures, present participle hachuring, simple past and past participle hachured)
- To mark a map with hachures.
French
Etymology
hacher +? -ure
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /a.?y?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
hachure f (plural hachures)
- A crosshatching line.
- (cartography) A mapping hachure or the technique itself.
- (rare) Something minced.
Derived terms
- hachurer
Further reading
- “hachure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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octothorpe
English
Alternative forms
- octothorp
Etymology
Origin disputed. There is no known usage before it was adopted by Bell Labs in the late 1960s or early 1970s, so most sources agree it was coined by someone at Bell Labs, but accounts from Bell Labs personnel conflict on the details. The derivation as a traditional term from octo- (“eight”) and thorpe (“field, hamlet or small village”) lacks any evidence, but there is near universal agreement that the first element refers to the number eight. Eight is derived from the number of ends of the lines. Thorpe could be reference to Jim Thorpe, as one proponent was a fan of the athlete.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??kt?????p/
- (US) IPA(key): /???kto?????p/
Noun
octothorpe (plural octothorpes)
- (chiefly US, typography) The hash or square symbol (#), used mainly in telephony and computing.
- 1973, U.S patent application ser. no. 05/422,816 (filed Dec. 3 1973), issued as patent no. 3,920,926 (Nov. 18, 1975), Telephone Data Set Including Visual Display Means, col. 3 (first published use of the word)
- ...the octothorp (#) key generates a command to send the contents of the memory unto the telephone line through a send circuit...
- 1982, Willard R. Espy, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., page 230
- Octothorp is the # on a push-button telephone. Rumor at the telephone company is that a man named Charles B. Octothorp, wanting to make his name famous...
- 1973, U.S patent application ser. no. 05/422,816 (filed Dec. 3 1973), issued as patent no. 3,920,926 (Nov. 18, 1975), Telephone Data Set Including Visual Display Means, col. 3 (first published use of the word)
Synonyms
- hash, octothorn, pound sign, number sign, tic-tac-toe sign, noughts and crosses sign/symbol, sharp sign [music], hashtag
Translations
See also
- #
- sextile
References
Further reading
- Number sign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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