zeugmatographic, adj.

zeugmatographic
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Revised 2018

# 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?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

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

1. Zetlandic, adj. 1701–
2. zetta-, comb. form
3. Zeuglodon, n. 1839–
4. zeuglodont, n. & adj. 1850–
5. zeuglodontoid, adj. & n. 1891
6. zeugma, n. c1450–
7. zeugmatic, adj. 1851–
8. zeugmatical, adj. 1610–
9. zeugmatically, adv. 1616–
10. zeugmatogram, n. 1973–
11. zeugmatographic, adj.1973–
12. zeugmatography, n. 1973–
13. zeunerite, n. 1873–
14. Zeus, n.¹ 1587–
15. Zeus, n.² 1601–
16. Zeus-like, adj. & adv. 1850–
17. Zeuxian, adj. 1635–
18. Zeuxis, n. 1577–
19. Zeuxis-like, adj. 1665–
20. zeuxite, n. 1836–
21. zeze, n. 1860–

## Meaning & use

Physics. Now historical and rare.

1. 1973–
   Involving or produced by zeugmatography.
   Stressed as ˌzeugmatoˈgraphic.
   1. 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
   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
   life sciences physics historical
   1. superinfected 1897–
      That has undergone superinfection.
   2. spinal 1900–
      Physiology. Used to describe an animal whose spine has been severed from its brain.
   3. auxanographic 1905–
   4. deafferented 1909–
      That has undergone destruction, interruption, or loss of afferent neural connections.
   5. turbidimetric 1911–
      Obtained with or employing a turbidimeter.
   6. pre-experimental 1917–
      Existing or occurring before an experiment, or before the period of experimental science.
   7. superinfecting 1918–
   8. killed 1919–
      Medicine. Applied to bacteria and viruses that have been killed or rendered non-infectious, and hence to preparations containing them.
   9. pretreated 1925–
      That has been treated beforehand.
   10. micrurgical 1927–
       Of, relating to, or involving micrurgy.
   11. bursectomized 1928–
   12. ultrafilterable 1928–
       Capable of passing through an ultrafilter.
   13. microinjected 1938–
   14. alloxanic 1950–
       Physiology. Of diabetes (in laboratory animals): induced by alloxan.
   15. microinjecting 1951–
   16. superfused 1953–
       Physiology. Subjected to superfusion (superfusion, n.¹ 2); employed in or applied by means of superfusion.
   17. sterile-male 1959–
       Used attributively to designate the technique of controlling a natural population by releasing large numbers of sterile males into it, so that…
   18. sham-operated 1963–
       sham operation (Biology), an operation in which an incision is made but nothing is removed, performed on animals of an experimental control group so…
   19. transfected 1964–
       (Said of the cell and of the acid).
   20. perifused 1969–
   21. zeugmatographic 1973–
       Involving or produced by zeugmatography.
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## 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 data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

### 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
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1970 | 0.0013
1980 | 0.0012
1990 | 0.0012
2000 | 0.0012
2010 | 0.0014

Originally published as part of the entry for zeugmatography, n.

zeugmatography, n. was revised in June 2018.