natural process

collocation in English

meanings of naturaland process

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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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Examples of natural process

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The proposed landfill system is based on naturalprocess, but engineered to some extent.
But there is no reason to prefer a naturalprocess per se to an artificial process.
The operation of reflection corresponds to the naturalprocess of compiling a source program into an executable.
Is it a naturalprocess or should students be taught how to learn vocabulary from context?
Recovery from a disease is always the result of a naturalprocess, not of intervention by the physician.
This passivized verb form is boiled is infelicitous if it describes the naturalprocess of water boiling.
Unfortunately, the effects are so small that no realistic naturalprocess has been put forward where racemization is small enough.
In this way, regulatory competition is seen to be a naturalprocess driven by market actors.
With cultivated oil palm, leaf removal is thus mainly a management operation rather than a naturalprocess.
It was long thought that a raising of blood pressure with age-partly due to atheroma-was part of the naturalprocess of ageing in man.
The object of his methods was to enhance a naturalprocess of individuation emergent through techniques of active imagination (a sort of controlled daydream).
In the latter, vocabulary and the code of language are acquired in the naturalprocess of interaction.
Positive life changes might be seen as a naturalprocess that encourages patients' adjustment to cancer.
What does now remain is an undesigned naturalprocess whose necessary conditions (and, no doubt, actual beginning) are very improbable.
It evolved through an almost naturalprocess, by stages, from previous forms of popular politics.
For that reason the transport models are more closely related to the naturalprocess than the diffusion-based models.
It also describes, in detail, current methods of embalming, cremation, and burial and of the naturalprocess of decomposition of bodies.
Nevertheless, he agrees that the directionality of grammaticalization is a naturalprocess.
This process similarity implies that an appropriate controller for granular synthesis could be based on the principles of a sound-producing naturalprocess such as rainfall.
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