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geomedium en · NOUN

Etymology

From geo- + medium.

Meanings

1. A geological medium or substrate such as soil, sediment, or rocks.
   • The fate processes and transport rates of each contaminant that is released at initial but time-variable concentration, Ca, into the surrounding geomedia are affected by the homogeneity, isotropy, and continuity of the geomedium. 2005, Calvin C. Chien, Hilary I. Inyang, Lorne G. Everett, Barrier Systems for Environmental Contaminant Containment and Treatment, →ISBN, page 57:
   • The depth of penetration is significantly reduced in electrical conducting geomediums such as clay. 2012, Alkiviadis S. Paipetis, Theodore E. Matikas, Dimitrios G. Aggelis, Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing V, →ISBN, page 479:
   • In a geomedium, the solid particles act as insulators while soil moisture acts largely as the conductor of the electric current. 2000, Donald L. Wise, Remediation Engineering of Contaminated Soils, →ISBN, page 77:
2. A format that includes geographical information, such as that used by maps, geotagged pictures, or travelogues.
   • Starting with context-free knowledge about the constructedness of geomedia by focusing on different constructional elements, which the map author selects, this type of knowledge will be presented and then applied by working with a geomedium. 2014, Eric Sanchez, Inga Gryl, Thomas Jekel, Learning and Teaching with Geomedia, →ISBN, page 167:
   • These are actors for whom physical artefacts and even human bodies are 'mashable', contiguous and combinable with the aforementioned forms of geomedia. 2013, Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller, Digital Anthropology, →ISBN:
   • In that context. I claimed that location-based media or geomedia are to space what the watch is to time. Geomedia regulate social behavior, coordinate social interactions, and regulate interpersonal communications, while organizing the exchange of information, the founding immaterial commodities constitutive of these new immaterial places. 2013, Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin, Mobile Technology and Place, →ISBN, page 224:

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