extreme environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextremeandenvironment
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extreme
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstriːm/us/ɪkˈstriːm/
very large in amount ...
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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 ofextremeandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although some eggs could survive the winter and hatch the next year, the overall survivability of these eggs was quite low in thisextremeenvironment.
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Clearly, there are features of theextremeenvironmentat this site which are not conducive for transmission of parasites.
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Trees at the immediate edge of the forest are likely subject to a moreextremeenvironmentthan trees growing close to an edge.
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Because brackish water is anextremeenvironmentin which organisms tolerate lower or changing salinities, parasites have developed special adaptations which guarantee their successful existence in such anextremeenvironment.
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The stratosphere is anextremeenvironmentand it could be argued that bacteria are unlikely to survive the prevailing low temperatures, and high exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
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Many of these devices are one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art experimental components that have been configured to work in theextremeenvironmentof the deep ocean.
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These robots would aid the astronauts from being their personal assistants to next generation ofextremeenvironmentexplorers.
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It was a veryextremeenvironment, and really horrible things were happening.
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In thisextremeenvironment, policymakers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisis experience.
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Digging out snow caves was the only option for protection fromextremeenvironment.
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The intent is to spur development ofextremeenvironmentbattery technology for use in space missions.
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Anextremeenvironmentis one place where humans generally do not live or could die there.
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Scientists are working to find ways to study thisextremeenvironmentfrom the shipboard.
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These items had not been put together with great care, or with any acknowledgement of adopting indigenous peoples' techniques for dealing with theextremeenvironment.
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Other lessons have students describe and classify critters, experiment with extreme environments, and test the limits of chemical tracers.
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Available data indicate that viruses of extreme environments can be very differnt from other viruses.
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