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/ɪnvˌaɪrənmˈɛntəl/ /ɪnvˌaɪrənmˈɛnəl/ Listen

adjective

environmental adj.

Of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors.

Of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as, environmental pollution; environmental disaster; environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration. "THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs. This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the cause coral spawn slick deoxygenation is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara."

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"Environmental" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Natural aptitudes? I am surprised to hear you use such an expression. I thought you furnished your students with aptitudes through environmental conditioning." ...

— When I Grow Up • Richard E. Lowe

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... to contact stimuli then depends always on the presence of nociceptors in the affected part of the body and to the type of the contact. Powerful response is made to crushing injury by environmental forces; to such injuring contacts as resemble the impacts of fighting; to such tearing injuries as resemble those made by teeth and claws (Fig. 9). On the other hand, the sharp division of tissue by cutting produces ...

— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile

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... an individual organism, whether plant or animal, reacts, and often reacts markedly, to the environmental conditions under which its life is passed. More especially is this to be seen where such characters as size or weight are concerned. More sunlight or a richer soil may mean stronger growth in a plant, better nutrition may result ...

— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett

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... compartments: air pressure, density, temperature, and purity optimum; all intrinsic gear optimum; three shuttler berths vacant; hold shows standard environmental equipment for one team gone; messenger racks full, no programming apparent; absolutely no sign of ...

— Attrition • Jim Wannamaker

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... an expedition to Terra," Palladin told us. "From what we have been able to gather astronomically, that planet seems habitable. Mirla, we know, is out of the question; it is a holocaust of fire. And to dwell on the semi-aquatic world of Venia, a new environmental adaptation would ...

— Walls of Acid • Henry Hasse

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