different between typography vs topography

English

Etymology

From French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos) + ?????? (graphía, “mark, impression, image”), variant of ????? (graph?, “writing”).typo- +? -graphy

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ta??p????fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ta??p?????fi/

Noun

typography (usually uncountable, plural typographies)

1. The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
2. The practice or process of printing with type.
3. The appearance and style of typeset matter.

Derived terms

Related terms

• typographia

See also

• typesetting

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of typography

English

Etymology

First attested in 1432. From Middle English topographye, from Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (topographía), from ????? (tópos, “place”) + ????? (gráph?, “I write”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??p????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??p????fi/
• Hyphenation: top?og?raphy
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

topography (countable and uncountable, plural topographies)

1. A precise description of a place.
2. A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
3. The features themselves; terrain.
4. The surveying of the features.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• topology
• toponym
• toponymic

Anagrams

• optography