regio

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Definition of regio

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noun

Any large area of a planet or moon that is strongly differentiated from neighbouring areas by colour or albedo.

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noun

Any large area of a planet or moon that is strongly differentiated from neighbouring areas by colour or albedo.
(Ancient-Rome)A district of a city.

“The British School has unearthed a city of continuous houses, more than 400 feet long by 350 broad, whose many blocks or "insul[ae]" might seem almost to need the more elaborate grouping of the "regiones" of Pompeii.”

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Learned borrowing from Latin regiō. Doublet of region.

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