GEOGRAPHIC

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determined by geography

Example:

the north and south geographic poles

Synonyms:

geographic; geographical

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

true (determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles)

Antonym:

magnetic (determined by earth's magnetic fields)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the science of geography

Synonyms:

geographic; geographical

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

geography (study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation)

Credits

Context examples:

The researchers were able to predict the geographic occurrences of fossil representatives of these groups at different points in Earth’s history.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

Specific grounds for annullment vary within the presiding jurisdiction, whether geographic or religious.

(Annulled, NCI Thesaurus)

In geographic atrophy, once RPE cells die, photoreceptors eventually also die, resulting in blindness.

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

The advance and retreat of the ice sheets also had a profound influence on the evolution and geographic distribution of many animals, including those that live in far northern regions.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

The geographic pattern of expansion varied from season to season, with the largest differences along the Sahara's northern and southern boundaries.

(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)

Ancient DNA and Stable Isotope Analysis are now considered primary sources of information in the study of the geographic mobility of populations, their genetic affinities, and their diet.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Magnetic north flips to the geographic South Pole and, eventually, back again.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

A discipline in nursing with a focus on the delivery of health care and disease prevention to residents living in a common geographic area.

(Community Health Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

Big geographic changes across northern Zealandia, which is about the same size as India, have implications for understanding questions such as how plants and animals dispersed and evolved in the South Pacific.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

The NCI's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-94, shows the geographic patterns of cancer death rates in over 3,000 counties across the country over more than four decades.