geographical spread
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeographicalandspread
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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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spread
noun
uk/spred/us/spred/
the development or growth of something so that it covers a larger area or affects a larger number ...
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These can be discounted to some degree through the stratigraphical andgeographicalspreadof measurements from individual units.
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The potential inflation ofgeographicalspreaddue to lack of differentiation between business and leisure travellers is of concern.
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The current study details thegeographicalspreadof this outbreak and the host species affected.
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The districts were chosen for theirgeographicalspreadand to include rural villages, small towns, suburbs and larger conurbations.
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Examining the potentialgeographicalspreadof cases by air travel on a smaller scale also necessitates incorporation of different contact rates between travellers and non-travellers.
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Within each city, the sampling scheme was designed to control forgeographicalspreadand income categories.
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The selection of architects was based upongeographicalspread, diversity of educational background and the presence of public recognition through the award of design prizes at national or local level.
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The strictness of this control depended on the ente's 'spending power' in the political arena: on its distribution of resources, social visibility, remit,geographicalspreadand so on.
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Similarly, it is now possible to investigate thegeographicalspreadof lexical items by specifying authors or participants who were born in, or now live in, different regions.
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However, population density and the averagegeographicalspreadof territories of origin of spouses can just as well be modeled as a continuum, directly from clines of average annual rainfall.
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Part of the story (as we can see from the latest index, included in this double issue) has been concerned with thegeographicalspreadof the language.
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Mass movements of ruminants, and their associated worms, within and between countries have contributed to thegeographicalspreadof resistance.
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Given thegeographicalspreadof the sample, participants were offered a choice of a telephone interview or a face-to-face interview at a location of their choice.
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The overseas territories are a diverse group, varying in size, population andgeographicalspread.
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A recent report shows thegeographicalspreadof those schools, and does not support the point she has just made.
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They assured me that thegeographicalspreadof abattoirs was done in such a way that they did not face a significant problem.
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The intervention board has therefore tried to match renderers with abattoir capacity, and also to ensure a fairgeographicalspread.
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Two further machines purchased during the first quarter of 1974 were sited so as to achieve an equitablegeographicalspread.
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Thegeographicalspreadof this distribution will depend solely on the voluntary participation of charitable and other non-profit-making organisations.
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Once again, thegeographicalspreadis highly pertinent, because the franchieses of legal aid are the large legal practices in towns and cities.
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