• an outline or silhouette
  Silhouette
  A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a basically featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. Although the art form has been popular since the mid-18th century, the term “silhouette” was seldom used until the early decades...
  
  
• a contour line
  Contour line
  A contour line of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value. In cartography, a contour line joins points of equal elevation above a given level, such as mean sea level...
  
   on a contour map, or the corresponding line on the ground or sea bed
• Contour (linguistics)
  Contour (linguistics)
  In phonetics, contour describes speech sounds which behave as single segments, but which make an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another. These sounds may be tones, vowels, or consonants....
  
  , a phonetic sound
• Pitch contour
  Pitch contour
  In linguistics, speech synthesis, and music, the pitch contour of a sound is a function or curve that tracks the perceived pitch of the sound over time....
  
   (music), a melody shape
• Contour (camera system)
  Contour (camera system)
  Mova Contour is a multi-camera system developed by former Apple Computer engineer Steve Perlman. It records surfaces digitally, by using fluorescent makeup and stereo triangulation, allowing for very detailed digitization and manipulation...
  
  , a 3D digital camera system
• Equal-loudness contour
  Equal-loudness contour
  An equal-loudness contour is a measure of sound pressure , over the frequency spectrum, for which a listener perceives a constant loudness when presented with pure steady tones. The unit of measurement for loudness levels is the phon, and is arrived at by reference to equal-loudness contours...
  
  , a measure of sound pressure
• Service contour
  Service contour
  In US broadcasting, service contour refers to the area in which the Federal Communications Commission predicts and allows coverage....
  
  , a coverage area in US broadcasting
• Jama Contour is a collaborative solution that helps development teams build products, produced by Jama Software
  Jama Software
  Jama Software is a privately held company that was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Jama’s flagship product, Jama Contour, was released in 2007...
  
  

• Lexical contour, the boundary of lexical variable scope
  Scope (programming)
  In computer programming, scope is an enclosing context where values and expressions are associated. Various programming languages have various types of scopes. The type of scope determines what kind of entities it can contain and how it affects them—or semantics...
  
  
• boundaries of level sets
  Level set method
  The level set method is a numerical technique for tracking interfaces and shapes. The advantage of the level set method is that one can perform numerical computations involving curves and surfaces on a fixed Cartesian grid without having to parameterize these objects...
  
  

• A contour line
  Contour line
  A contour line of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value. In cartography, a contour line joins points of equal elevation above a given level, such as mean sea level...
  
   of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value.
• a closed path in the mathematical method of contour integration
• boundary of a set
  Boundary (topology)
  In topology and mathematics in general, the boundary of a subset S of a topological space X is the set of points which can be approached both from S and from the outside of S. More precisely, it is the set of points in the closure of S, not belonging to the interior of S. An element of the boundary...
  
  

• Contours (album)
  Contours (album)
  Contours is the second album by American saxophonist Sam Rivers recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label. The CD reissue contains an alternate take as a bonus track.-Reception:...
  
  , an album by Sam Rivers
  Sam Rivers
  Samuel Carthorne Rivers , is an American jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano....
  
  
• The Contours
  The Contours
  The Contours were one of the early African-American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records.The group is best known for its Billboard Top 10 hit, "Do You Love Me," a million-selling song that peaked twice in the Top 20....
  
  , a soul music group
• Ford Contour
  Ford Contour
  The Ford Contour, and its rebadged variant, the Mercury Mystique, were compact 4-door sedans marketed from model years 1995-2000 by Ford Motor Company in North America...
  
  , a motor car
• CONTOUR
  CONTOUR
  The COmet Nucleus TOUR was a NASA Discovery-class space probe that failed shortly after its July 2002 launch. It had as its primary objective close flybys of two comet nuclei with the possibility of a flyby of a third known comet or an as-yet-undiscovered comet.The two comets scheduled to be...
  
  , a space probe

See also

• Active contour
  Active contour
  Active contour model, also called snakes, is a framework for delineating an object outline from a possibly noisy 2D image.This framework attempts to minimize an energy associated to the current contour as a sum of an internal and external energy:...
  
  , a concept in computer vision
• Contour bunding, an agricultural technique
• Contour canal
  Contour canal
  A contour canal is an artificially-dug navigable canal which closely follows the contour line of the land it traverses in order to avoid costly engineering works such as boring a tunnel through higher ground, building an embankment over lower ground, or constructing a canal lock to change the...
  
  , an artificial water channel
• Contour Crafting
  Contour Crafting
  Contour Crafting is a construction process under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently without manual labor. It was originally conceived...
  
  , a proposed construction process
• Contour drawing
  Contour drawing
  Contour drawing, is an artistic technique used in the field of art in which the artist sketches the contour of a subject by drawing lines that result in a drawing that is essentially an outline; the French word contour meaning, “outline.” The purpose of contour drawing is to emphasize the mass and...
  
  , an artistic style (produced, for example, by blind contour drawing
  Blind contour drawing
  Blind contour drawing is a method of drawing widely used by art teachers, where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper. The artistic technique was introduced by Kimon Nicolaïdes in The Natural Way to Draw, and further popularized by Betty Edwards as "pure contour...
  
  )
• Contour length
  Contour length
  Contour length is a term used in molecular physics. The contour length of a polymer chain is its length at maximum physically possible extension....
  
  , a concept in molecular physics
• Contour plowing
  Contour plowing
  Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing across a slope following its elevation contour lines. The rows formed slow water run-off during rainstorms to prevent soil erosion and allow the water time to settle into the soil...
  
   (or ploughing), an agricultural technique
• Contour rivalry
  Contour rivalry
  Contour rivalry is an artistic technique used to create multiple possible visual interpretations of an image. An image may be viewed as depicting one thing when viewed in a certain way; but if the image is flipped or turned, the same lines that formed the previous image now make up an entirely new...
  
  , an artistic technique
• Contour threads
  Contour threads
  Contour threads are used in cosmetic/plastic surgery to vertically lift facial tissues that have dropped or become sunken with age...
  
  , used in cosmetic surgery
• Illusory contours
  Illusory contours
  Illusory contours or subjective contours are a form of visual illusion where contours are perceived without a luminance or color change across the contour. Friedrich Schumann discovered illusory contours.-Examples:...
  
  , an optical illusion
• Upper and lower contour set
  Contour set
  In mathematics, contour sets generalize and formalize the everyday notions of*everything superior to something*everything superior or equivalent to something*everything inferior to something*everything inferior or equivalent to something....
  
  s, concepts in mathematical economics