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Definitions: Geographical |
GeographicalAdjective1. Of or relating to the science of geography. 2. Determined by geography; "the north and south geographic poles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "geographical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: GeographicalSynonym: geographic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: magnetic (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | He's my best friend, because Well, geographical convenience. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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 | Bob Pryce operating theodolite at Geographical Center of North America.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Harley Nygren reading marker indicating geographical center of United States.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Map illustrating geographical distribution and periodical movements of menhaden Also locations of fishing grounds and oil and guano factories in the year 1878 From Report U. S. Fish Commission, Part VI, 1878.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate 24. A map of the world showing the geographical distribution of the Hair Seal family.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | "A New Map of Earthquake Distribution", by Captain Nicholas Heck, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. In: The Geographical Review, Vol. XXV, 1935. Pp. 125-130. Heck noted for the first time that earthquakes were associated with the Mid- Atlantic Ridge in his accompanying paper. Heck first produced a world seismicity map showing the activity on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1932.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A first contoured map of the Astoria Canyon complex off the entrance to the Columbia River. In: Francis P. Shepard, "Submarine Valleys." The Geographical Review, Volume XXIII, 1933, p. 86.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | NRCS employees digitizing soils for soil survey information. Digitized layers are used in Geographical Information Systems (GIS).Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume, page 725. It gives two views of Flag Officer DuPont's squadron at Hampton Roads, Virginia, prior to leaving on 29 October 1861 to capture Port Royal, South Carolina. Ships and geographical features, as identified below the images, are (upper engraving, from left): ferry boats, store ship, steamer Marion, USS Seminole, steamer Ben Deford, ship Grapeshot, Fort Monroe, USS Narragansett, USS Alabama, USS Pawnee, and new ("90-Day") gunboats (lower engraving, from left): store ship, steamer Vanderbilt, steam tug (foreground), store ship, steamer Winfield Scott, steamer Atlantic, USS Minnesota, steamer Baltic, USS Relief, USS Wabash, USS R.B. Forbes, steamer Oriental, steamer Matanzas, steamer Philadelphia, and the Rip Raps.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Commercial and geographical relation of New York to Europe and Asia, with views of Hong Kong, Honolulu, Aspinwall, Panama, and on the Pacific Railroad.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Oliver Wendell Holmes | A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In this recommendation regard will be paid to the wishes of the inhabitants as shown by the vote and to the geographical and economic conditions of the locality. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Despotism violates the moral frontier, as invasion violates the geographical frontier. |
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Health | Only a portion of the rodents in each host species is infected at any one time, and in many cases only in a limited portion of the host's geographical range. (references) | |
Studies have shown that sleeping outdoors at night in geographical regions where outbreaks occur could be a risk factor for exposure to mosquito and other insect vectors. (references) | ||
Foci of disease have been identified in defined geographical regions with reported annual rates as high as 16 cases per 100,000 persons for HGE and 31 cases per 100,000 persons for HME infection. (references) | ||
Business | A firm can appoint multiple agents in Egypt on a geographical or product basis. (references) | |
None of the players in the market have chosen to introduce geographical price variations. (references) | ||
New Zealand's geographical location and terrain have been studied as ideal for wind energy. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | India | Sporadic attacks continued but were not concentrated in one geographical area. (references) |
Colombia | He noted that in the first 8 months of the year there was a progressive increase in the numbers, geographical extension, and political complexities of the displacement phenomenon. (references) | |
Moldova | The Bessarabian Orthodox Church considers itself to be the legal and canonical successor to the pre-World War II Romanian Orthodox Church in Bessarabia (a historical and geographical designation generally applied to the area bounded by the Danube, Nistru, and Prut Rivers, and the Black Sea). (references) | |
Economic History | Brazil | Smaller firms may have geographical area limitations. (references) |
Armenia | Location: no sectoral or geographical restrictions on investment. (references) | |
Lithuania | Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, lies at the geographical center of Europe. (references) | |
Human Rights | Philippines | The AFP requires human rights and humanitarian law training for all officers and enlisted personnel, including former Moro National Liberation Front combatants and for the more than 30,000 members of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Units (CAFGU's). (references) |
Indigenous People | Chile | Of the population that identifies itself as indigenous, about one-half remain separated from the rest of society, largely due to historical, cultural, educational, and geographical factors. (references) |
Political Economy | Hong Kong | Voters elect only eight of Macau's twenty-three legislators in direct elections in geographical constituencies. (references) |
Political Rights | Belgium | The regional governments are charged with matters that directly affect the geographical regions and the material well-being of their residents, such as commerce and trade, public works, and environmental policy. (references) |
Hong Kong | The ability of the legislature to influence policy is limited substantially by Basic Law provisions that require separate majorities among members elected from geographical and functional constituencies in order to pass a bill introduced by an individual member and that prohibit the Legislative Council from putting forward bills that affect public expenditure, political structure, or government operations. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Every checkpoint covers a particular geographical area. (references) |
Travel | Canada | English is the language spoken in the geographical majority of the country and is also the generally accepted language of business. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | Unions are obliged by law to negotiate on behalf of all registered workers in the professional category and geographical area they represent, regardless of whether an employee pays voluntary membership dues to the union. (references) |
Brazil | The 1988 Constitution significantly reduced the role of the Government in certifying unions; however, it retained various provisions established by the labor code in the 1940's. One such provision is a restriction known as "unicidade" ("one-per-city"), which limits freedom of association by prohibiting multiple, competing unions of the same professional category in a given geographical area. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime. The genus has a wide geographical distribution, being found wherever sought and deplored wherever found. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear, though in respect to comeliness distinctly inferior to the rainbow, and, with regard to the part of her that is audible, bleating out of the field by the canary -- which, also, is more portable. A lovelorn maiden she sat and sang -- This quaint, sweet song sang she; "It's O for a youth with a football bang And a muscle fair to see! The Captain he Of a team to be! On the gridiron he shall shine, A monarch by right divine, And never to roast on it -- me!" Opoline Jones |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Those which are founded on geographical divisions, adverse interests of soil, climate, and modes of domestic life are more permanent, and therefore, perhaps, more dangerous. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Annihilate this trade, arrest its free progress by the geographical lines of jealous and hostile States, and you destroy the prosperity and onward march of the whole and every part and involve all in one common ruin. |
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| "Geographical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.50% of the time. "Geographical" is used about 1,611 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.5% | 1,603 | 5,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.5% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,611 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "geographical": geographical area ♦ geographical boundary ♦ Geographical coordinates ♦ geographical device ♦ geographical Distribution ♦ geographical information system ♦ Geographical latitude ♦ geographical limits ♦ geographical location ♦ Geographical mile ♦ geographical order ♦ geographical panel ♦ geographical point ♦ geographical range ♦ geographical region ♦ geographical routing ♦ geographical subdivision ♦ Geographical variation ♦ Geographical variety ♦ geographical zone. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "geographical": geographical-and, geographical-climatic. | |
Ending with "geographical": palaeo-geographical, physical-geographical, physio-geographical, phyto-geographical, social-cum-geographical, socio-geographical, zoo-geographical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "geographical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | geografies (geographic), aardrykskundig (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjeografik (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | географски (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 地理 (Geographic, Geographically, geography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zemìpisný (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | geografisk underdeling (geographical device, geographical subdivision, local subdivision, subdivisions of place), geodætisk bredde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), geografisk bredde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), geografisk deling (geographical sharing), geografisk inddeling (geographical device, geographical subdivision, local subdivision, subdivisions of place), geografisk indfoersel (geographical entry, geographical heading), geografisk informationssystem (geographic information system, geographical information system), geografisk kort (geographical chart, geographical map), geografisk omraade (geographical area), geografisk opdeling af transaktionerne med den øvrige verden (geographical allocation of transactions with the rest of the world), geografisk rækkevidde (geographical range), geografisk transcendens af regionalt samarbejde (transcendence of purely geographical considerations), geografisk zone (geographical area), geografiske og socioøkonomiske forskelle (geographical and socio-economic disparities), GIS (geographic information system, geographical information system), globalbegrænsning (geographical limits, territorial limits), geografiske hjaelpetal (geographical device, geographical subdivision, local subdivision, subdivisions of place), geografisk register (geographical index), rumlig opdeling (geographical device, geographical subdivision, local subdivision, subdivisions of place), at lette arbejdskraftens adgang til beskaeftigelse og fremme dens geografiske og faglige bevaegelighed inden for Faellesskabet (to render the employment of workers easier and to increase their geographical and occupational mobility within the Community), den øvrige verdens konti,fordelt geografisk (geographical breakdown of the rest of the world accounts), fil af navne paa lande (file of geographical entities), transaktioner,der vedrører landets finansielle passiver,foretaget mellem ikke-hjemmehørende enheder,tilhørende forskellige geografiske zoner (transactions in the country's liabilities between non-residents belonging to different geographical zones), topografisk ordning (geographic arrangement, geographic filing method, geographic filing system, geographical order), system til behandling af geografiske data (geographical information system), sydpol (south geographical pole, South Pole, south pole face), sikringsanlaeg med sporplan med trykknapper i sporplanen (NX tower, signal box with push button geographical circuitry), polhøjde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude, latitude), landkort (geographical map, map), astronomisk bredde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), vin med en geografisk betegnelse (wine with a geographical ascription), sportavle (geographical panel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geografisch (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | geografia (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maantieteellinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | géographique (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | geografysk (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geographisch (geographic, geographically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γεωγραφικόσ (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | földrajzi (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | geografis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | geografico (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 地名辞典 (gazetteer, geographical dictionary), 地形 (geographical features, terrain, topography), 国土地理院 (Geographical Survey Institute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "くどちりい" (Geographical Survey Institute), じぎょう (business, enterprise, geographical features, industry, operations, project, terrain, topography), ちめいじて" (gazetteer, geographical dictionary), ちけい (geographical features, terrain, topography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 지리 (Geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cheer-oaylleeagh (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | geográfiko (geographic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eographicalgay geográfico (geographic, geographical boundary). (various references) geografic (geographic, geographically), spaţial (geographic, space, spatial). (various references) географический (geographic). (various references) geografski (geographic). (various references) geografía (geographic, geography), geográfico (geographic). (various references) geografisk (geographic). (various references) เกี่ยวกับ ูมิศาสตร์. (various references) coğrafi (geographic). (various references) etrap (geographical region). (various references) географічний (geographic). (various references) daearyddol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "geographical": geographically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "geographical": biogeographical, paleogeographical, phytogeographical, zoogeographical. (additional references) | |
Words containing "geographical": paleogeographically, phytogeographically, zoogeographically. (additional references) | |
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"Geographical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Geografico, geographia, geographicus, geograpical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "geographical" (pronounced jē'ugra"fikul) |
| 9 | -u g r a" f i k u l | autobiographical, biographical, typographical. |
| 8 | -g r a" f i k u l | graphical. |
| 5 | -f i k u l | philosophical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, bicycle, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-g-h-i-l-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: archipelago. | |
-2 letters: geographic. | |
-3 letters: coliphage, graphical, parochial. | |
-4 letters: agraphic, alopecia, apagogic, arpeggio, capriole, cloggier, heroical, oligarch, orphical, paragoge, parhelia, parhelic, poachier. | |
-5 letters: acaleph, acerola, acholia, agapeic, airhole, apagoge, aphelia, apogeal, apogeic, caliper, calorie, caporal, cariole, carpale, charlie, charpai, chigger, cholera, choragi, chorale, choreal, choregi, chorial, clogger, coalier, ephoral, epochal, georgic, gharial, glacier, gracile, graphic, haggler. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-g-h-i-l-o-p-r" | |
+2 letters: geographically. | |
+3 letters: biogeographical, paleogeographic, zoogeographical. | |
+5 letters: cholangiographies, paleogeographical, phytogeographical, zoogeographically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6F 67 72 61 70 68 69 63 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . --- --. .-. .- .--. .... .. -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e o g r a p h i c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0069 0063 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417181738467827475696778 |
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