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Origin vs Geogeny - What's the difference?

origin | geogeny |

As nouns the difference between origin and geogeny

is that origin is the beginning of something while geogeny is the study of the origins or formation of the Earth.

origin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The beginning of something.
  • The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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  • (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  • (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  • (cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  • (in the plural) Ancestry.
  • Synonyms

    * (source) source * (mathematics) zero vector

    Antonyms

    * (source) destination * (anatomy) insertion

    See also

    * provenance

    geogeny

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dated) The study of the origins or formation of the Earth.