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geographic information science

geographic information science noun: the scientific study of the nature and use of geographic information; the theoretical foundation of geographic information systems.

Noun

geographic information science (uncountable)

  1. The scientific study of the nature and use of geographic information; the theoretical foundation of geographic information systems.

Forms of geographic information science

alternative formgeographical information science

Origin of geographic information science

Coined by Michael Goodchild in the early 1990s, and quickly caught on in the academic community.

Questions about geographic information science

What does geographic information science mean?
Geographic information science means the scientific study of the nature and use of geographic information; the theoretical foundation of geographic information systems.
What part of speech is geographic information science?
Geographic information science is a noun.

Words near geographic information science in the dictionary

  1. geographic atrophy
  2. geographic bachelor
  3. geographic bachelored
  4. geographic bacheloring
  5. geographic bachelors
  6. geographic information science
  7. geographic information system
  8. geographic information systems
  9. geographic mile
  10. geographic miles
  11. geographic North Pole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geographic information science (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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