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regional, a. and n.|ˈriːdʒənəl|
[ad. late L. regiōnāl-is: see prec. and -al1, and cf. mod.F. régional.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or pertaining to, connected with, a particular region or district.
1654Hammond Answ. Animadv. Ignat. vi. 159 The Apostles..planting a Church in a chief Citie, and extending the Faith to the Region about it,..annext the Regional-Church to the City-Church. 1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 11 Especially if..we could skill to modify also the Air, about them, and make the Remedy as well regional as topical. 1861Times 10 July, He asked how he meant to deal with Tuscany,..where the regional system was still kept up in all its integrity. 1882Geikie in Nature 7 Dec. 122 It is evident that an enormous area of regional metamorphism extends across Scandinavia. 1888Times 23 June 5/5 The regional shows held in the different departments of France.
b. Geol. regional metamorphism [tr. F. métamorphisme régional (G. A. Daubrée Études et Expériences Synthetiques sur le Métamorphisme (1860) ii. ii. 59)]: metamorphism affecting rocks over an extensive area as a result of the large-scale action of heat and pressure.
[1859T. S. Hunt in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XV. 489 We must commence by distinguishing between the local metamorphism which sometimes appears in the vicinity of traps and granites and that normal metamorphism which extends over wide areas and is apparently unconnected with the presence of intrusive rocks.] 1871― in Amer. Naturalist V. 494 The problem to be solved in regional metamorphism is the conversion of sedimentary strata..into aggregations of crystalline silicates. 1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. x. 133 Much more important are the great masses of metamorphic rock which have resulted from what is often called regional metamorphism, i.e. deep burial of rock masses..due to earth-movement. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth i. 35/1 Regional metamorphism is accompanied by more or less intense deformation.
c. Of, pertaining to, or connected with a region (esp. in senses 5 b and c). So regional board, regional planning, etc.
1921G. D. H. Cole Future of Local Govt. ii. 15 There is an overwhelming case, from the standpoint of public convenience and efficiency of service, for the regional planning of publicly owned road transport services. 1927Rep. Comm. Publ. Libraries Eng. & Wales 151 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 2868) XII. 231 Our conclusion is that a national system should be built up on..the grouping of public libraries round regional centres, which will generally be the great urban libraries. 1933H. Finer Eng. Local Govt. vii. 164 If the regional solution were adopted it would..furnish an area large enough to include most of those services for which a large area has been found necessary. 1941Economist 18 Jan. 68/2 Lord Nuffield..envisaged regional boards throughout the country which would co-ordinate hospital finance and policy. 1943in J. S. Huxley TVA 5 The Tennessee Valley Authority initiated regional planning on a scale never before attempted in history. 1956G. N. Flemming Organisation of Technical Coll. 1 There are at present three main types of technical college,..described in this circular as local, area and regional colleges. 1957G. L. Goodwin Brit. & United Nations 459 The prospects of world peace will turn not on the United Nations but on the effectiveness of global and regional balances of power. 1959W. Isard et al. Industrial Complex Anal. i. 6 The concept of regional structure has come to be relativistic. 1962Lancet 27 Jan. 219/2 The unit would be organised on regional-board level. 1965Haas & Schmitter Polit. of Econ. in Lat. Amer. Regionalism i. 1 One of the first prolonged attempts at regional economic integration between independent developing countries. 1969Times 3 Feb. 10/8 Farming is not a subject which often enters the realm of regional planning. 1972W. Isard et al. Ecologic-Economic Anal. for Regional Development p. xv, We constantly assert that no longer can regional development and regional planning be treated in their traditionally narrow contexts. 1976C. A. Smith Regional Anal. I. p. xi, Careful field studies of markets and regional economics..would have identified regional patterns not predicted by central-place theory..thereby stimulating the development of new regional system theories. 1977M. Hudson Global Fracture xiv. 178 The currency-debt of a nation or regional grouping of nations not politically associated with the creditor central bank. 1978Dumfries Courier 13 Oct. 2/6 The modernisation project at Templand had been praised by the Regional Planning Committee.
d. Of or pertaining to a broadcasting region (sense 5 d). Also, designating a B.B.C. radio service which operated during the 1930s.
1929Radio Times 8 Nov. 403/3, 2BE Belfast..9.0 Regional News. 1930B.B.C. Year-bk. 30 The Regional Stations of Daventry, London, and Manchester will cover about 75 per cent. of the population. 1962Rep. Comm. Broadc. 1960 157 The four major companies having been appointed [by the ITA], this consideration prompted the appointment of the relatively large number of relatively small ‘regional’ companies. Ibid. 221 The present sound programmes of the BBC are..basically national programmes. Within them, regional programmes are accommodated. 1965[see national a. 1 d]. 1968Writing for BBC (ed. 2) 12 A particulary worth-while opportunity for would-be contributors exists in the Regional editions of programmes.
2. Pertaining to a special part of the body.
1861O. W. Holmes Med. Ess. Wks. 1891 IX. 224 It is curious that the Japanese should have anticipated Europe in a kind of rude regional anatomy. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 271 The regional diagnosis of cerebral disease is, in some instances, comparatively easy.
B. n.
1. A B.B.C. radio service which operated during the 1930s.
1936J. Reith Diary 20 Jan. (1975) iii. 185 We got it [sc. a statement] out at 9.38 as we had to collect all the Regionals and Empire. 1938,1971[see national a. 1 d]. 1978Broadcast 27 Feb. 4/2 A balance between the majors and regionals has emerged.
2. The part of a gravity anomaly or magnetic anomaly that is due to deep features and varies only gradually from place to place.
1940L. L. Nettleton Geophys. Prospecting for Oil xii. 222 If this regional is properly estimated and removed,..the local features will show up in their proper form and relief. 1954Geophysics XIX. 1 The problem of regionals and residuals arises in all geophysical methods which are based on measurement of a ‘potential’ field. 1967Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists LI. 2388/1 The 13th-order regional fits closely the observed data.
3. In general use, ellipt. for regional (stock) exchange, newspaper, stamp, etc.
1958Gibbons Stamp Monthly 1 Sept. 2/3 Pictorials can be captioned—to most people these Regionals will be confusingly anonymous. 1965Time 3 Sept. 58 Because of this growth..the cost of seats on the regionals has been rising steadily. 1969Times 5 May (Wall Street Suppl.) p. v/7 Many of the regionals even encouraged institutional, or mutual fund, business... The major brokerage houses handling institutional transactions could thus buy a relatively inexpensive seat on a regional exchange. 1971D. Potter Brit. Eliz. Stamps iv. 59 Jersey and Guernsey stamps were withdrawn on 1 October 1969, and the two islands issued their own stamps. But the regionals remained valid for postage elsewhere in the United Kingdom. 1974State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 27 Feb. 3-b/4 The South Atlantic regional at Norfolk, Va. 1975B. Gunston Philatelist's Companion 247 Regional, a stamp issued for use in only part of the territory under the authority of a postal administration (eg Scotland, in the case of the UK). 1975Times 13 Aug. 12/1 While national newspaper managements were still thinking in the fifties of hot metal..modernization ran across Britain and the regionals profited.
Hence ˈregionally adv.
1879Parker in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1882) II. 166 Regionally, these walls answer to the orbitosphenoids and alisphenoids of the higher Vertebrata. 1886Science 10 Sept. 233/2 The preservation of rock-oils in every formation, of every geological age, all over the world; subject, however, locally or regionally, to subsequent change or destruction. 1962Rep. Comm. Broadc. 1960 151 We have examined the BBC on its allocation of money between its sound and television services, both nationally and regionally. 1974Nature 1 Nov. 28/1 Viewed regionally, the area of greatest regressive tendency within the depositional regime can be identified as the central and northern North Sea. |