Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geospatial

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: geospa-tial
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a geographic location, especially data.

adj

Describing the combination of spatial software and geographic data.

Example Sentences

"The geospatial coordinates for the building are not known."
"Various types of characters (i.e., integrative taxonomy), such as morphology, biology,geospatial, chronological, and molecular data for phylogenetic analyses will accompany revisionary papers as tests of monophyly and other evolutionary hypotheses, and as summaries of relevant character state distributions and character state changes."
"The geospatial analysis of the area will take several hours to complete."

Etymology

Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Proto-Hellenic *gayader. Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip. Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der. English geo- English spatial English geospatial From geo- + spatial.

Inflected Forms

geo-spatial (alternative)

Derived Forms

geospatiality geospatially nongeospatial

Frequently Paired Words

spatial geospace geographic hydrospatial

Questions

What does geospatial mean?: Of or pertaining to a geographic location, especially data.
Where does geospatial come from?: Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Proto-Hellenic *gayader. Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip. Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der. English geo- English spatial English geospatial From geo- + spatial.

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