zeugmatographicadjective
Factsheet
What does the adjective zeugmatographic mean?
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective zeugmatographic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
How common is the adjective zeugmatographic?
| 1970 | 0.0013 |
| 1980 | 0.0012 |
| 1990 | 0.0012 |
| 2000 | 0.0012 |
| 2010 | 0.0014 |
Where does the adjective zeugmatographic come from?
Earliest known use
1970s
The earliest known use of the adjective zeugmatographic is in the 1970s.
OED's earliest evidence for zeugmatographic is from 1973, in the writing of P. C. Lauterbur.
Nearby entries
- Zetlandic, adj.1701–
- zetta-, comb. form
- Zeuglodon, n.1839–
- zeuglodont, n. & adj.1850–
- zeuglodontoid, adj. & n.1891
- zeugma, n.c1450–
- zeugmatic, adj.1851–
- zeugmatical, adj.1610–
- zeugmatically, adv.1616–
- zeugmatogram, n.1973–
- zeugmatographic, adj.1973–
- zeugmatography, n.1973–
- zeunerite, n.1873–
- Zeus, n.¹1587–
- Zeus, n.²1601–
- Zeus-like, adj. & adv.1850–
- Zeuxian, adj.1635–
- Zeuxis, n.1577–
- Zeuxis-like, adj.1665–
- zeuxite, n.1836–
- zeze, n.1860–
Meaning & use
- 1973–Involving or produced by zeugmatography.Stressed as ˌzeugmatoˈgraphic.
- 1973
Zeugmatographic techniques should find many useful applications in studies of the internal structures, states, and composition of microscopic objects.
P. C. Lauterbur in Nature 16 March 191/2 - 2007
His approach was related to Lauterbur's zeugmatographic method that had been reported in Nature in March of that year.
Social Studies of Science vol. 37 541
- superinfected1897–That has undergone superinfection.
- spinal1900–Physiology. Used to describe an animal whose spine has been severed from its brain.
- auxanographic1905–
- deafferented1909–That has undergone destruction, interruption, or loss of afferent neural connections.
- turbidimetric1911–Obtained with or employing a turbidimeter.
- pre-experimental1917–Existing or occurring before an experiment, or before the period of experimental science.
- superinfecting1918–
- killed1919–Medicine. Applied to bacteria and viruses that have been killed or rendered non-infectious, and hence to preparations containing them.
- pretreated1925–That has been treated beforehand.
- micrurgical1927–Of, relating to, or involving micrurgy.
- bursectomized1928–
- ultrafilterable1928–Capable of passing through an ultrafilter.
- microinjected1938–
- alloxanic1950–Physiology. Of diabetes (in laboratory animals): induced by alloxan.
- microinjecting1951–
- superfused1953–Physiology. Subjected to superfusion (superfusion, n.¹ 2); employed in or applied by means of superfusion.
- sterile-male1959–Used attributively to designate the technique of controlling a natural population by releasing large numbers of sterile males into it, so that…
- sham-operated1963–sham operation (Biology), an operation in which an incision is made but nothing is removed, performed on animals of an experimental control group so…
- transfected1964–(Said of the cell and of the acid).
- perifused1969–
- zeugmatographic1973–Involving or produced by zeugmatography.
Frequency
zeugmatographic typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zeugmatographic is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency of zeugmatographic, adj., 1970–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
| Decade | Frequency per million words |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.0013 |
| 1980 | 0.0012 |
| 1990 | 0.0012 |
| 2000 | 0.0012 |
| 2010 | 0.0014 |