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geographic

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Etymology

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From Latin geōgraphicus; see French géographique. By surface analysis, geography +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: geo‧graph‧ic

Adjective

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geographic (comparative more geographic, superlative most geographic)

  1. Pertaining to geography (or to geographics).
    • 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo‎[1]:
      In his book, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government, Zach Weinersmith speculates about what governments would look like if they didn’t rule over geographic locations, but instead ruled over minds.
    • 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet‎[2], volume 7, →DOI, page 175:
      The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
  2. Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)

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