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ABIOTIC

Specialty Definition: ABIOTIC

DomainDefinition

Weather

Nonliving. Compare biotic.Absorption of radiation The uptake of radiation by a solid body, liquid or gas. The absorbed energy may be transferred or re-emitted. See radiation. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Abiotic

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Abiotic refers to any factor in the environment that is non-living. Examples might be soil, rocks, weather, and water.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abiotic."

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Crosswords: ABIOTIC

Specialty definitions using "ABIOTIC": chlorotic dwarfEcological IndicatorLandscape ecologymimicking symptoms. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ABIOTIC

DomainTitle

Books

  • Biotic and Abiotic Processes in Eastside Ecosystems: The Effects of Management on Plant and Community Ecology, and on Stand and Landscape Vegetation (reference)

  • Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: Role of Genetic Engineering (reference)

  • The Physiology of Plants Under Stress: Abiotic Factors (reference)

  • The Plant Disease Clinic and Field Diagnosis of Abiotic Diseases (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: ABIOTIC

"ABIOTIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABIOTIC" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABIOTIC

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abiotic factor

29

abiotic

27

abiotic biotic factor

9

abiotic aquatic

8

abiotic biotic

7

abiotic factor forest rain tropical

4

abiotic desert factor

4

abiotic factor tundra

3

abiotic factor savanna

3

abiotic factor forest rain

3

abiotic biotic vs

2

abiotic deciduous factor forest

2

abiotic factor grassland

2

abiotic biotic factor tundra

2

abiotic aquatic biotic environment

2

abiotic biome biotic factor marine

2

abiotic definition

2

abiotic factor picture

2
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Modern Translation: ABIOTIC

Language Translations for "ABIOTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

opretholdelsen af en ligevaegt saavel mellem de levende organismer indbyrdes som mellem disse organismer og det abiotiske miljoe (maintaining equilibrium both amongst living organisms themselves and between these organisms and the abiotic environment), for konsumenters vedkommende er der tale om et optag af radionuklider, som allerede har undergaaet en koncentrering i forhold til det abiotiske miljoe gennem deres passage fra de lavere til de hoejere trofiske niveauer (in the case of the consumers one can observe the uptake of radionuclides which have already undergone concentration in relation to the abiotic environment in the course of their passage from the lower to the higher trophic levels), et oekosystem er et samfund - eller en samling af samfund - med sit abiotiske, d.v.s. ikke levende, miljoe (an ecosystem is a community - or assemblage of communities - together with its abiotic, environment), cirkulationen af de kemiske stoffer fra det abiotiske miljoe til de levende organismer og tilbage igen, betegnes : biogeokemisk kredsloeb (the more or less circular paths of chemical elements passing back and forth between organisms and abiotic environment are known as biogeochemical cycles). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

abiotisch. (various references)

   

French

  

abiotique. (various references)

   

German

  

abiotisch (abiotically). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άνευ ζωήσ, αβιοτικόσ, αβιοτικός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

abiotico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abioticay

   

Portuguese

  

abiotico, abiótico. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abio/tico, abiótico. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нежиттÑ"вий (non-viable), неживий (dead, inanimate, inorganic, insensate, insentient, lifeless). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô sinh. (various references)

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Derivations: ABIOTIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "ABIOTIC": abiotically. (additional references)

Words ending with "ABIOTIC": parabiotic. (additional references)

Words containing "ABIOTIC": parabiotically. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ABIOTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-o-t"

-1 letter: biotic.

-2 letters: biota, coati, cobia, tibia.

-3 letters: bait, boat, bota, ciao, coat, iota, obia, obit, otic, taco.

-4 letters: abo, act, ait, bat, bio, bit, boa, bot, cab, cat, cob, cot, oat, obi, oca, tab, tao, tic.

-5 letters: ab, ai, at, ba, bi, bo, it, ta, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-i-o-t"
 

+1 letter: biotical.

 

+2 letters: albinotic, bioactive.

 

+3 letters: abdication, antibiotic, bilocation, bioethical, cohabiting, iceboating, incubation, parabiotic.

 

+4 letters: abdications, abiotically, antibiotics, bacteriocin, batholithic, bibliotheca, biconcavity, bifurcation, bilocations, bioactivity, bioclimatic, biometrical, bisectional, brachiation, brecciation, calibration, coilability, combination, combinative, fabrication, iceboatings, idioblastic, imbrication, incubations, lubrication, macrobiotic, nondiabetic, obstinacies, publication, rubrication, sociability.

 

+5 letters: absolutistic, bacteriocins, basification, bibliothecae, bibliothecal, bibliothecas, bifunctional, bifurcations, binocularity, bioacoustics, biometrician, biotechnical, borosilicate, brachiations, brecciations, calibrations, catabolizing, cohabitation, combinations, connubiality, countability, crossability, diabetogenic, diploblastic, fabrications, fibroblastic, imbrications, incompatible, incompatibly, lactobacilli, lubrications, microhabitat, nonadiabatic, nondiabetics, obstetrician, postbiblical, publications, rubrications, tribological, umbilication.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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