Collocations withterrain

These are words often used in combination withterrain.

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alpine terrain
Very often, it will also conduct rope rescues in alpine terrain or search for missing persons.
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broken terrain
In between attacks, the guerrillas secreted themselves in the broken terrain.
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challenging terrain
Noble goals and challenging terrain: organic and fair-trade coffee movements in the global marketplace.
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complex terrain
Finally, the concluding chapter provides a flow chart demarcating the different assumptions about human nature held by the book's proponent authors - an instructive route-map across a conceptually complex terrain.
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contested terrain
Social scientists need to investigate this contested terrain.
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dangerous terrain
The prevailing low cloud and whiteout made navigation difficult, and in dangerous terrain could halt progress altogether.
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desert terrain
Navigation enhancements were made to cope with the featureless desert terrain; engines required protection from the effects of sand.
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difficult terrain
Both these works make invaluable inroads into this highly rich and difficult terrain.
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flat terrain
Figure 9 shows the pressure variation on a flat terrain in the shape of a pyramid when the shock wave has passed over it.
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hilly terrain
The hilly terrain was also widely terraced to prevent erosion and maintain soil productivity.
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inhospitable terrain
Our forces must be deployable at short notice and in difficult and inhospitable terrain.
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level terrain
The best candidates for study are lakes in watersheds that were not densely settled and that lie in level terrain.
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mountainous terrain
Due to model errors, the standard deviations in mountainous terrain are larger than the simulated ones.
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open terrain
But many of the most significant battles over public money are fought out on more open terrain.
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rocky terrain
All movement should be undertaken carefully so as to minimise disturbance to the soil and vegetated surfaces and birds present, walking on snow or rocky terrain if practical.
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rolling terrain
Graves are on terraces in the rolling terrain.
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rough terrain
Other researchers have studied walking control algorithms to deal with rough terrain.
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rugged terrain
Rugged terrain in the study area is characterized by small gently undulating valleys with few minor steep bluffs.
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surrounding terrain
These provide for adequate clearance from obstacles and surrounding terrain.
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terrain feature
Nearly every key terrain feature was heavily fortified with elaborate bunker and trench complexes.
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undulating terrain
Undulating terrain, meandering brook and a musical fountain are added attractions to the park.
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uneven terrain
The problem of walking on uneven terrain is addressed in this work.
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unfamiliar terrain
It is vital for the judgment about a person's mobility to be tested on unfamiliar terrain, so that independent walking ability rather than walking from memory is tested.
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varied terrain
They were mobile and could rapidly advance over varied terrain.
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variety of terrain
The variety of terrain accessible to an airplane is greater than for most surface platforms.
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wooded terrain
As the highway continues northward, the landscape transitions into hilly, wooded terrain.
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