Difference between Hatching and Hachure

What is the difference between Hatching and Hachure?

Hatching as a noun is a method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines. while Hachure as a noun is a line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.

Hatching

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To close with a hatch or hatches.

Hachure

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.

We hope you now know whether to use Hatching or Hachure in your sentence.

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