GEOGRAPHICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geographically mean? 

• GEOGRAPHICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb GEOGRAPHICALLY has 1 sense:

1. with respect to geography

  Familiarity information: GEOGRAPHICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOGRAPHICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With respect to geography

Context example:

they are geographically closer to the center of town

Pertainym:

geographic (of or relating to the science of geography)

 Context examples 

A molecular signature of IgE against a handful of allergens at ages 3-5 years predicted respiratory allergy with more than 90 per cent probability up to adolescence in the two geographically separate populations.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A gene mutation observed with high frequency in a group that is or was geographically or culturally isolated, in which one or more of the ancestors was a carrier of the mutant gene.

(Founder Mutation, NCI Dictionary)

It is the first to apply the latest high-quality sequencing technology to such a large and diverse set of humans, covering 929 genomes from 54 geographically, linguistically and culturally diverse populations from across the globe.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

The findings contradict the long-held assumption that crop failures in geographically distant breadbasket nations such as the United States, China and Argentina are unrelated.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

Studies of living individuals or groups of subjects (such as families, communities, or populations defined geographically or demographically), or material of human origin (such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena, etc.), for understanding of their physiologic and pathophysiologic characteristics, mechanisms of human diseases and development of approaches to diseases treatment and prevention.

(Patient Oriented Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Cohort members initially resided in 11 geographically dispersed states representing the Northeast (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland), Northcentral (Ohio, Michigan), the West (California) and the South (Texas, Florida); although the majority of participants still reside in the original 11 states, members of the cohort currently live in all 50 states.

(Nurses' Health Study, NCI Thesaurus)