diatopic

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English

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Etymology

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From dia- +‎ -topic.

Adjective

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diatopic (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly phonetics) Occurring over or changing with space; geographic.
  2. (chiefly phonetics) Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over space.
    • 1989, William Veder, Texts of Closed Tradition – The Key to the Manuscript Heritage of Old Rus’:
      The variant forms of textual tradition, relevant on the level of the diachronic and diatopic study of the text, were irrelevant on the level of the single manuscript.

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