physical environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalandenvironment
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofphysical environment
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For some, culture represents behavioral variants not attributable to genes, thephysicalenvironment, or individual learning - in other words, variants due to social learning.
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Loanwords are also evidence of how speech communities interacted with aphysicalenvironmentthat was ancient to some, unfamiliar to others, and unyielding to all.
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First, residential quality, resource availability, and mobility reflect residents' perceptions of theirphysicalenvironment.
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The latter live in a narrow social andphysicalenvironmentclosely tied to land because it provides the only means of livelihood.
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These regularities are characteristics of thephysicalenvironmentthat were more or less invariant during the evolutionary history of a species or of its ancestors.
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The verification of an autonomous agent may thus require the simulation of its environment, including other autonomous agents and the external/physicalenvironment.
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Up to this point the reader is provided with an overview of thephysicalenvironmentwithout much attention to humans.
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Due to the biology of ticks as blood-feeding parasites, theirphysicalenvironmentincludes the host itself.
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Its 418 pages are divided into three parts: thephysicalenvironment; the government; and local customs.
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A few species (ours, most extensively) use culture to improve how they deal with social life and with thephysicalenvironment.
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Norms and customs that arise from living in a particularphysicalenvironmentcan have a tremendous impact on decisions to attend school.
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Note that all biotic interactions are influenced by thephysicalenvironmentwhich includes disturbances.
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Ixodes ricinus in relation to itsphysicalenvironment.
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It's not only protection of thephysicalenvironmentbut also of the human environment.
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Both strategies are directly related to the ways groups are moving through theirphysicalenvironmentin order to exploit available food resources.
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And all this variety lies in the architecture and thephysicalenvironmentit creates.
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An increasing artificiality in the entirephysicalenvironment, from urban to rural, is occurring.
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A basic feature of crop production functions are the relationships between thephysicalenvironmentand plant growth.
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