Definition of "topography"

topography

/təˈpɒɡɹəfi/

noun
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.
5. (by extension) A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc.
  Quotations
  With good humor if predictably, the emotional topography of the faire facilitates a kind of liberation from both the closet and the cruelty of high school cliquedom.
  2014, Rachel Lee Rubin, Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture, page 283