different between topography vs physiography

English

Etymology

First attested in 1432. From Middle English topographye, from Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (topographía), from ????? (tópos, “place”) + ????? (gráph?, “I write”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??p????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??p????fi/
• Hyphenation: top?og?raphy
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

topography (countable and uncountable, plural topographies)

1. A precise description of a place.
2. A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
3. The features themselves; terrain.
4. The surveying of the features.

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See also

• topology
• toponym
• toponymic

Anagrams

• optography

English

Etymology

physio- +? -graphy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

physiography (countable and uncountable, plural physiographies)

1. (geography) The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns.
   • 1914, School Science and Mathematics (volume 14, page 119)

     Questions that bewilder the globe student of seasons are easily answered by pupils who have been taught seasons by the globeless method, as the writer knows from experience with three classes, two in astronomy and one in physiography.

2. The descriptive part of a natural science as distinguished from the explanatory or theoretical part.

   mineral physiography

Synonyms

• geosystems, physical geography

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