natural : Idioms & Phrases

• those logarithms (devised by John Speidell, 1619) of which the base is 2.7182818; so called from Napier, the inventor of logarithms.

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• noun ability that is inherited
  

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• noun a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
  action; natural action; activity.
  
  • the action of natural forces
  • volcanic activity

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• noun labor and childbirth without medical intervention; no drugs are given to relieve pain or aid the birth process
  
  • natural childbirth is considered the safest for the baby

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• noun a natural object that covers or envelops
  cover; covering.
  
  • under a covering of dust
  • the fox was flushed from its cover

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• the space of twenty-four hours. Chaucer.

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• noun a sunken or depressed geological formation
  depression.
  

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• noun a raised or elevated geological formation
  elevation.
  

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• noun a naturally enclosed space
  enclosure.
  

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• noun natural abilities or qualities
  talent; endowment; gift.
  

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• noun an event that happens
  occurrent; happening; occurrence.
  

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• noun any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle
  

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• See under Fat, Gas. etc.

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• noun fiber derived from plants or animals
  natural fiber.
  

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• noun fiber derived from plants or animals
  natural fiber.
  

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• noun a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes
  gas.
  

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• noun magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly
  

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• (Mus.), the harmony of the triad or common chord.

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• noun the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals
  

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• in its broadest sense, a history or description of nature as a whole, incuding the sciences of botany, zoölogy, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of botany and zoölogy collectively, and sometimes to the science of zoology alone.
• a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

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• noun immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup
  innate immunity.
  

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• noun a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
  tongue.
  

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• noun the branch of information science that deals with natural language information
  human language technology; NLP.
  

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• noun an application program that deals with natural language text
  natural language processing application.
  

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• noun an application program that deals with natural language text
  natural language processing application.
  

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• noun a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
  law.
  

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• that instinctive sense of justice and of right and wrong, which is native in mankind, as distinguished from specifically revealed divine law, and formulated human law.

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• noun a logarithm to the base e
  Napierian logarithm.
  

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• (Mus.), transition from one key to its relative keys.

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• noun the number 1 and any other number obtained by adding 1 to it repeatedly
  

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• noun an object occurring naturally; not made by man
  

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• noun the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws
  

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• . (Nat. Hist.) See under order.

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• . (Law) See under person, n.

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• noun all phenomena that are not artificial
  

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• noun the science of matter and energy and their interactions
  physics.
  
  • his favorite subject was physics

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• originally, the study of nature in general; in modern usage, that branch of physical science, commonly called physics, which treats of the phenomena and laws of matter and considers those effects only which are unaccompanied by any change of a chemical nature; contrasted with mental and moral philosophy.

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• noun a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
  action; natural action; activity.
  
  • the action of natural forces
  • volcanic activity

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• noun a plant exudate
  

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• noun resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature
  natural resource.
  

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• noun resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature
  natural resource.
  

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• noun an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
  rubber; caoutchouc; gum elastic; India rubber.
  

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• (Mus.), a scale which is written without flats or sharps. Model would be a preferable term, as less likely to mislead, the so-called artificial scales (scales represented by the use of flats and sharps) being equally natural with the so-called natural scale

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• noun the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena
  

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• natural history, in its broadest sense; used especially in contradistinction to mental or moral science.

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• noun a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)
  naturalist.
  

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• noun a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
  survival of the fittest; survival; selection.
  

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• (Biol.), a supposed operation of natural laws analogous, in its operation and results, to designed selection in breeding plants and animals, and resulting in the survival of the fittest. The theory of natural selection supposes that this has been brought about mainly by gradual changes of environment which have led to corresponding changes of structure, and that those forms which have become so modified as to be best adapted to the changed environment have tended to survive and leave similarly adapted descendants, while those less perfectly adapted have tended to die out though lack of fitness for the environment, thus resulting in the survival of the fittest. See Darwinism.

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• noun a shape created by natural forces; not man-made
  

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• noun a natural flow of ground water
  outpouring; spring; outflow; fountain.
  

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• noun a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
  wild; state of nature.
  
  • he lived in the wild
  • they collected mushrooms in the wild

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• (Bot. & Zoöl.), a classification based upon real affinities, as shown in the structure of all parts of the organisms, and by their embryology.

  It should be borne in mind that the natural system of botany is natural only in the constitution of its genera, tribes, orders, etc., and in its grand divisions. Gray.

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• noun a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation
  

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• that part of theological science which treats of those evidences of the existence and attributes of the Supreme Being which are exhibited in nature; distinguished from revealed religion. See Quotation under Natural, a., 3.

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• noun (scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature
  

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• the vowel sound heard in urn, furl, sir, her, etc.; so called as being uttered in the easiest open position of the mouth organs. See Neutral vowel, under Neutral and Guide to Pronunciation, § 17.

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• noun an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science
  Royal Society.
  

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