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geomorphology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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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 morphology English geomorphology From geo- + morphology.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The study of landforms, their classification, origin, development, and history.
   • The point is that as fairly static pre-war Davisian geomorphology and Köppenian climate classification gave way to postwar, dynamic, process geomorphology and climate change studies, as geography went through its revolution, the field was radically transformed, geography became–and continues to be–central to and vital for the larger project of understanding global environmental change in all its complexity. Physical things are processural and relational. 2016, Don Mitchell, Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021, page 2:

Forms

Deriveds

exogeomorphology · biogeomorphology · dendrogeomorphology · hydrogeomorphology · paleogeomorphology · ecogeomorphology · photogeomorphology

Relateds

geomorphological · geomorphologic · geomorphologist

Translations (49)

ast xeomorfoloxía (the study of landforms) · bn ভূমিরূপবিদ্যা (the study of landforms) · cmn 地貌學 /地貌学 (the study of landforms) · pt geomorfologia (the study of landforms) · sv geomorfologi (the study of landforms) · fr géomorphologie (the study of landforms) · hu geomorfológia (the study of landforms) · it geomorfologia (the study of landforms) · hi भू-आकृति विज्ञान (the study of landforms) · af geomorfologie (the study of landforms) · de Geomorphologie (the study of landforms) · gl xeomorfoloxía (the study of landforms) · nn geomorfologi (the study of landforms) · nb geomorfologi (the study of landforms) · th ธรณีสัณฐานวิทยา (the study of landforms) · ru геоморфоло́гия (the study of landforms) · az geomorfologiya (the study of landforms) · tl duanyuan (the study of landforms) · fa ژئومورفولوژی (the study of landforms) · es geomorfología (the study of landforms) · kn ಭೂರೂಪಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (the study of landforms) · vi địa mạo học (the study of landforms) · sh geomorfologija (the study of landforms) · tg геоморфология (the study of landforms) · hu felszínalaktan (the study of landforms) · da geomorfologi (the study of landforms) · tl heomorpolohiya (the study of landforms) · ms kaji bentuk bumi (the study of landforms) · kk геоморфология (the study of landforms) · tr jeomorfoloji (the study of landforms) · ko 지형학 (the study of landforms) · fi geomorfologia (the study of landforms) · ky геоморфология (the study of landforms) · ro geomorfologie (the study of landforms) · tg заминрехтшиносӣ (the study of landforms) · eo geomorfologio (the study of landforms) · uk геоморфоло́гія (the study of landforms) · ja 地形学 (the study of landforms) · pl geomorfologia (the study of landforms) · ga geomoirfeolaíocht (the study of landforms) · be геамарфало́гія (the study of landforms) · ca geomorfologia (the study of landforms) · nan-hbl 地形學 /地形学 (the study of landforms) · ms geomorfologi (the study of landforms) · cmn 地形學 /地形学 (the study of landforms) · ka გეომორფოლოგია (the study of landforms) · cs geomorfologie (the study of landforms) · nl geomorfologie (the study of landforms) · sah геоморфология (the study of landforms)