natural process
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandprocess
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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process
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses/us/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnatural process
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The proposed landfill system is based onnaturalprocess, but engineered to some extent.
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But there is no reason to prefer anaturalprocessper se to an artificial process.
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The operation of reflection corresponds to thenaturalprocessof compiling a source program into an executable.
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Is it anaturalprocessor should students be taught how to learn vocabulary from context?
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Recovery from a disease is always the result of anaturalprocess, not of intervention by the physician.
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This passivized verb form is boiled is infelicitous if it describes thenaturalprocessof water boiling.
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Unfortunately, the effects are so small that no realisticnaturalprocesshas been put forward where racemization is small enough.
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In this way, regulatory competition is seen to be anaturalprocessdriven by market actors.
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With cultivated oil palm, leaf removal is thus mainly a management operation rather than anaturalprocess.
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It was long thought that a raising of blood pressure with age-partly due to atheroma-was part of thenaturalprocessof ageing in man.
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The object of his methods was to enhance anaturalprocessof individuation emergent through techniques of active imagination (a sort of controlled daydream).
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In the latter, vocabulary and the code of language are acquired in thenaturalprocessof interaction.
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Positive life changes might be seen as anaturalprocessthat encourages patients' adjustment to cancer.
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What does now remain is an undesignednaturalprocesswhose necessary conditions (and, no doubt, actual beginning) are very improbable.
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It evolved through an almostnaturalprocess, by stages, from previous forms of popular politics.
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For that reason the transport models are more closely related to thenaturalprocessthan the diffusion-based models.
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It also describes, in detail, current methods of embalming, cremation, and burial and of thenaturalprocessof decomposition of bodies.
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Nevertheless, he agrees that the directionality of grammaticalization is anaturalprocess.
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This process similarity implies that an appropriate controller for granular synthesis could be based on the principles of a sound-producingnaturalprocesssuch as rainfall.
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