geographic range

American

noun

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the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.

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Mountain lions have the widest geographic range of any native mammal in the Americas apart from humans, stretching from western Canada to Argentina.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

As the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment notes, “A changing climate may create conditions favorable for invasive mosquito species to expand their geographic range into California.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024

It’s nothing like the polymer you started with, and it’s mixed and matched with other plastics in a variety of products across a huge geographic range.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2023

The pied tamarin has an extremely narrow geographic range in central Brazil, much of which now lies within the city of Manaus.

From Science Daily • Sep. 21, 2023

Arabian and Bactrian camels played a similar military role within their geographic range.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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