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hydrographical, a.|haɪdrəʊˈgræfɪkəl|
[See hydrographer.]
Pertaining or relating to hydrography. Hydrographical Department: see prec.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 23 The Heauenly Globe, may..be duely described vpon the Geographicall, and Hydro⁓graphicall Globe. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 226 As we may see in their Hydrographicall Cards. 1680Morden Geog. Rect. (1682) To Rdr. 2, Charts, Maps, Globes and all other Hydrographical and Geographical Descriptions. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 185 The hydrographical basin of the Mississippi displays, on the grandest scale, the action of running water on the surface of a vast continent. 1862Admiralty Ord. in Council 19 July II. 3 In the Chart Branch of the Hydrographical Department of Your Majesty's Navy. 1863A. C. Ramsay Phys. Geog. xi. (1878) 164 During the hydrographical survey of the ægean Sea.
Hence hydroˈgraphically adv. rare.
1727Bailey vol. II, Hydrographically, by the Art of Hydrography. |