different between geography vs demographic

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Etymology

From Middle French géographie, from Latin ge?graphia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ge?graphía, “a description of the earth”), from ?? (gê, “earth”) + ????? (gráph?, “write”).

Use in reference to lavatories derives from the mid-20th century euphemism "show one the geography of the house" in reference to pointing out the toilets.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???????fi/, /?d?????fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?i?????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi
• Hyphenation: ge?og?ra?phy

Noun

geography (countable and uncountable, plural geographies)

1. A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
2. The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
3. Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
   • 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization

     The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

4. Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
5. (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
6. The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (Britain, slang) a house.
7. (chiefly upper-class Britain, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
   • 1967 December 21, The Listener, p. 802:

     The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’

8. (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
9. (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.

Synonyms

• (upper-class British slang for lavatory): loo; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

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See also

• geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "geography, n."

English

Etymology

From demography +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?m????æf?k/

Adjective

demographic (comparative more demographic, superlative most demographic)

1. Of or pertaining to demography.

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Noun

demographic (plural demographics)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
   • 1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition,^[1] Reston Pub. Co., ?ISBN, page 604,

     Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]

   • 2000, James Chapman, “Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere”, in Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres (eds.), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta,^[2] Island Press, ?ISBN, page 82,

     How will this investment affect at the individual level, based on being disaggregated by various demographics (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, income) and locations (inner city, inner ring suburbs, suburbs, exurbs), miles traveled, travel time, accessibility to transit, and car ownership?

2. A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.

   Synonym: (informal) demo

   • 2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice,^[3] State University of New York Press, ?ISBN, page 281,

     […] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.

   • 2006, Tom Hutchison, Amy Macy, Paul Allen, Record Label Marketing, Elsevier, page 189,

     A newspaper is consumed by many demographics, a small portion of which may be the target.

   • 2006, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money,^[4] Insomniac Press, ?ISBN, page 44,

     As a member of the Generation X demographic, I'm saddened to admit that paying with plastic (whether debit or credit card) has superseded paying with real money.

   • 2012, 24 June (Sun), Debbie Arrington, "Racing Fans are being courted", The Sacramento Bee, page C1, col. 4

     "The demographic for NASCAR is people who eat," said Steve Page, president of the former Infineon Raceway […]

3. An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Related terms

• demographer
• demographical
• demographically
• demography

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