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geography

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Word definitions for geography in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth. 2 The physical structure of a particular region; terrain.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation [syn: geographics ]

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Geography is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. Geography may also refer to: Geography (album) , 1982 album by Front 242 Geography (Ptolemy) , Ptolemy's main work besides the Almagest Geography (Strabo) , Strabo's 17-volume ...

Usage examples of geography.

Your records state that you are a leading authority on physical geography and biogeography, not to mention your experience in a wide array of areas--atmospheric sciences, chemistry, oceanography, physics, botany, and microbiology.

Unlike Innail and Norloch, the only Schools Maerad knew, Busk was not planned in concentric circlesthe geography of the island, steep and irregular, made this impossible.

The article interested him more than most, being familiar himself with the geography of knees owing to his own torn cruciate ligaments, but he was soon lost in the technicalities of the protocols and thumbing listlessly through learned articles on hyperthyroidism, shingles, and sundry -ectomies and -omas.

While up at Trinity College, Cambridge, Dacre had taken a First in mathematics, but his abiding interest was geography.

The great tide of human intelligence had long withdrawn, but the people had retained a good understanding of the land, its geography, and resources: efficient foraging was an essential skill if you were to find food and water in this desperately arid landscape.

Her fragrant hair tickled his face as he strayed slow kisses there and caressed the lovesome geography of her, the flat, solid muscles in her back, the flesh of her nape under its wanning hair-cover.

We shall give a few of these, because there may be, in some of them, preserved by tradition, or copied from earlier prototypes, certain features and nomenclature that, with the help of fresh data, will form, at the least, the disjecta membra of a chain of evidence that may throw additional light on ancient geography generally, and on the geography of Australasian regions in particular.

A few mechanical acts of devotion and outward forms, very little real religion, a good deal of deceit, often profligate habits, a little reading and writing, many useless accomplishments, small music and less drawing, no history, no geography or mythology, hardly any mathematics, and nothing to make a girl a good wife and a good mother.

But this new geography is sullied by the old and incompatible error which places the source of the Nile in India.

So strong is the apperceiving force of familiar notions that they drag far-distant scenes in geography and history into the home neighborhood and locate them there.

Her prime weaknesses, aside from the habit of prosaic disillusionment, are a tendency toward erroneous geography and history and a fatal predilection for bestrewing her novels with insipid little poems, attributed to one or another of the characters.

And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theo-criticism and geography and history and economics, why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing.

Due to geography, and to its physical layout, the Charlotte branch, dubbed the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner, was chosen for the processing of specimens collected at the incident morgue in Bryson City.

There were thus laid down, though not a scientific, at least a philological basis, for the future development of the natural sciences and geography.

World Gup games thaire n besides, ah wis eywis shite at geography back at the school.