environmental factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofenvironmentalandfactor
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environmental
adjective
uk/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofenvironmentalandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Perhaps the most importantenvironmentalfactoris temperature.
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In this instance, the prescribed medication is theenvironmentalfactor.
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In trying to explain latitudinal clines, investigators have generally considered temperature as a keyenvironmentalfactor.
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A behavior gene may add to or subtract from anenvironmentalfactor.
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This signifies that the organization in which a subject is employed cannot be considered as a pureenvironmentalfactor.
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For many species, light, acting through the phytochromes, is a keyenvironmentalfactorfor the control of germination.
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Intervention may be considered a positive social-environmentalfactorwithin the complex mix of factors that shape lexical development.
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It is a supremely importantenvironmentalfactor.
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There is also a strongenvironmentalfactor.
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This would suggest that anenvironmentalfactoris involved.
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Will she take account of one otherenvironmentalfactor?
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For example, one can manipulate a specificenvironmentalfactorduring seed maturation and determine how that factor influences germination in the field.
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The cellular basis of wing size changes in response to the environment seem to be line-dependent rather than determined by theenvironmentalfactor.
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However, it is still possible that this causal effect is not direct but represents the effect of another, earlierenvironmentalfactor.
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The dry season appears to be the most importantenvironmentalfactorthat regulates population abundance when predation, density-dependent regulation and competition phenomena are ignored.
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Exposure to lead in the physical environment might, for example, be taken to be a clear example of a sharedenvironmentalfactor.
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Furthermore, the present study evaluated the influence of only a singleenvironmentalfactor(temperature) using parasitoids cultured from a single population from one locality.
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The shared environmental correlation of 1.00 means that any sharedenvironmentalfactorfound to be associated with general language would also be associated with articulation.
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However, no suchenvironmentalfactorhas been found for the vast majority of cases arising after the age of 5 years.
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Changes in wing size are obtained by line-specific changes in the cellular composition of the wing, rather than by changes specific for theenvironmentalfactor.
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In particular, a true test requires that exactly the sameenvironmentalfactorbe measured in the field and manipulated in the laboratory when measuring plasticity.
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