Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a geological manner; as regards geology.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a geological manner.

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  • adverb As part of a geologic process.
  • adverb Concerning geology.

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  • adverb with respect to geology

Etymologies

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geologic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • County, which permits only one living unit per forty acres in geologically hazardous areas, probably has the strictest such ordinances in the country.

    The Liquid Earth 1999

  • County, which permits only one living unit per forty acres in geologically hazardous areas, probably has the strictest such ordinances in the country.

    The Liquid Earth 1999

  • And when you shackle that river and run it out to the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico through levees, the river no longer floods and a natural consequence of that is what is what 's called geologically subsidence.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005 2005

  • They do exist, ladies and germs, and they all happen to be within 6 blocks of one another. unfortunately, that 6 block cluster was 7 blocks cross and 30 blocks up from us, which we had to overcome in what could only be described as geologically slow traffic.

    truckeratlas Diary Entry truckeratlas 2004

  • From these facts it is apparent that the carbon series is graded geologically, that is, by the lapse of time during which plant-tissue has been subjected to this natural and spontaneous distillation.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various

  • These monuments, therefore, whether of stone or bronze, belong to what I have termed geologically the Recent period, the definition of which some may think rather too dependent on negative evidence, or on the non-discovery hitherto of extinct mammalia, such as the mammoth, which may one day turn up in a fossil state in some of the oldest peaty deposits, as indeed it is already said to have done at some spots, though I have failed as yet to obtain authentic evidence of the fact.

    The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

  • This is a very big country, with huge differences geologically and culturally, and expats live all over it in different circumstances.

    Market Prices in MX 2009

  • This is a very big country, with huge differences geologically and culturally, and expats live all over it in different circumstances.

    Market Prices in MX 2009

  • This is a very big country, with huge differences geologically and culturally, and expats live all over it in different circumstances.

    Market Prices in MX 2009

  • This is a very big country, with huge differences geologically and culturally, and expats live all over it in different circumstances.

    Market Prices in MX 2009

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