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spatiography, n. rare.|speɪʃɪˈɒgrəfɪ| [f. spatio-, taken as comb. form of L. spatium space n.1 + -graphy.] The scientific description of the features of (outer) space; the topography of space.
1958H. Strughold in Alperin & Stern Vistas in Astronautics I. vi. 283 We need a topographical description of space, something that—in analogy to geography—we might perhaps call ‘spatiography’. 1961in Webster. 1962M. V. Glenny tr. Gartmann's Space Trav. 40 To find his way man will need to employ a kind of space geography, or ‘spatiography’, as it is called. |