geographical pattern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeographicalandpattern
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geographical
adjective
uk/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/
relating to geography, or to the geography of a particular area ...
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pattern
noun
uk/ˈpæt.ən/us/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofgeographicalandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thegeographicalpatternthat results is much more widely spread than the concentration observed in the case of foreign-owned plants.
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Our study reveals an interestinggeographicalpatternin the evolution of kadakkodi.
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However, thegeographicalpatterndoes not even faintly resemble either the diffusion pattern down the urban hierarchy or the contrary pattern from the smaller to the larger cities.
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The aetiology of chronic bronchitis is not fully understood but the evidence of thegeographicalpattern suggests that the disease is associated with urbanization and/or industrialization.
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There at least one cannot use the excuse of variation in thegeographicalpatternto deny the acceptance of what we seek to do.
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That is changing thegeographicalpatternin which economic activity takes place.
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It seems to me the logical one in terms ofgeographicalpattern, travel to work and so on.
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If we look at thegeographicalpatternof these closures, we shall find some ghastly, awful social problems involved with them.
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It discovered that the indicators of poor health followed almost completely thegeographicalpatternof unemployment levels.
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This increase might not go in any particulargeographicalpatternbut have a random distribution.
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This is one of the problems which, hopefully, the creation of a new county based on a more realisticgeographicalpatterncan solve.
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In changes to the level of grant allocated to colleges in 1996–97 there is no discerniblegeographicalpattern.
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They represent a widegeographicalpatternand can express a point of view fresh from the place where they live and work.
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I could not help reflecting while she was speaking that during the debate we have seen scepticism and dogma chasing each other in a rather unusualgeographicalpattern.
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The existinggeographicalpatternand trees was preserved as much as possible.
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It is not easy to see why these were bought as they do nt seem to be part of ageographicalpattern.
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The cause of thisgeographicalpatternis not clear.
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In this section and the next, we attempt to account explicitly for the geographical patterns.
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However, the biological significance and geographical patterns of mitochondrial variation for these species have yet to be established.
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