CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
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biodegradable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria
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biodegradable pollution in CommonParlance
- definition pollution that is rendered harmless by natural processes and so causes no permanent harm
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biodegrade in CommonParlance
- definition break down naturally through the action of biological agents
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biodiversity in CommonParlance
- definition the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole)
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biodynamics in CommonParlance
- definition the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms.
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bioelectric potential in CommonParlance
- definition the electric potential that occurs in a living organism.
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bioelectricity in CommonParlance
- definition electric phenomena in animals or plants
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bioengineering in CommonParlance
- definition the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments
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bioethics in CommonParlance
- definition the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences
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biofeedback in CommonParlance
- definition a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them
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bioflavinoid in CommonParlance
- definition a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation
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biogenesis in CommonParlance
- definition production of a chemical compound by a living organism
- definition the production of living organisms from other living organisms
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biogenetic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms
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biogenic in CommonParlance
- definition produced by living organisms or biological processes
- definition essential for maintaining the fundamental life processes
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biogenous in CommonParlance
- definition producing or produced by living things
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biogeny in CommonParlance
- definition the production of living organisms from other living organisms
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biogeographic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or involved with biogeography
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biogeographical in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or involved with biogeography
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biogeographical region in CommonParlance
- definition an area of the Earth determined by distribution of flora and fauna
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biogeography in CommonParlance
- definition dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants
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biographer in CommonParlance
- definition someone who writes an account of a person's life
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biographic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or being biography
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biographical in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or being biography
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biographism in CommonParlance
- definition reduction of textual meaning to authorial biography.
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biography in CommonParlance
- definition an account of the series of events making up a person's life