Kontúrja

Kontúrja is the contour or outline of an object as it appears in a two-dimensional representation. It refers to the boundary line that defines a shape, separating it from interior details such as texture, shading, or color. The term is widely used in art, design, and scientific visualization.

Etymology: Kontúrja comes from kontúr, borrowed into Hungarian from European languages such as French contour or German Kontur. The suffix -ja marks the possessive form, yielding "its contour" or "the contour of X" in Hungarian.

Applications: In visual arts and drawing, attention to a subject's kontúrja helps capture form and proportion, with contour drawing emphasizing the edge rather than texture. In cartography, kontúrok are contour lines that express elevation; the kontúrja of terrain informs planning and interpretation. In anatomy and biology, contours outline bodies or organs in diagrams and imaging. In computer vision, contour detection outlines objects for recognition and segmentation, and the resulting kontúrja represents the object’s boundary.

Usage notes: The term can be used with adjectives such as soft or distinct to describe the quality of the outline. While the English loanword contour is sometimes used in technical contexts, kontúr and kontúrja remain standard Hungarian terms. See also: kontúr, silhouette, contour.