Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
- n. The living organisms and their environment composing the biosphere.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sum of the living things on the earth considered as a stratum in contrast with the atmosphere and the lithosphere.
Wiktionary
- n. the part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life
- n. the totality of living organisms and their environment
WordNet 3.0
- n. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Etymologies
- bio- + sphere (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Bio" means life, and the term biosphere was first coined by a Russian scientist (Vladimir Vernadsky) in the 1920s.”
“As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said to me, "Just as Earth once covered itself with a film of interdependent living organisms which we call the biosphere, so mankind's combined achievements are forming a global network of collective mind.”
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“As Dyson points out, the biosphere is the single most complex system we study and weather is a continuously changing process.”
“The biosphere is huge and except for the area directly in the Calakmul site looks pretty much like areas that are not in the biosphere.”
“No amount of CO2 in the biosphere is by itself of any harm to any living thing (unless you replaced all the oxygen in doing so).”
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“Given that you can recycle a jar, get the basic materials like sand, water and pond samples for free, and a ghost shrimp costs next to nothing at a well-stocked pet store, building your own biosphere is a cheap project.”
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“Portals to the CROSSROADS can be found on any planet that supports life (even if the biosphere is incompatible with other forms of life).”
“All of earth's biosphere is actually one life form.”
“Everything in the biosphere is contained between them.”
“Our concept of the extension of the biosphere is again in a state of change since we have learned that "bacteria can penetrate rock" (Myers and McCready, 1966), and that an entire realm of our planet, which had been considered to be sterile, is in fact teeming with life, representing a substantial part of the "unseen majority" (Whitman et al.,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biosphere’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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bio-
of or relating to life
biology, biohazard, biome, biosphere, biotic, biography, biologist, biographer, biochemistry, biogenesis, autobiography, biostatic and 1 more...
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Spheres
Pneumatosphere, planisphere, empyrean, bailiwick, blastula, orbicle, globose, welkin, almucantar, bathysphere, colure, blastocyst and 46 more...
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Ophelia
Words to describe John Everett Millais' Ophelia
biosphere, biology, community, habitat, biotic, vivacious, nature, natural, detail, ecology ecosystem, dense, elaborate and 33 more...
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
flying car, space tourism, big brother, soylent green, brave new world, first contact, domestic android, skynet, new world order, collectivism, world peace, laser pistol and 93 more...
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science (collective opinion)
random scientific terms from a group of one hundred 16-18 year olds to choose 100 words that, in their collective opinion, represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today...
acid, base, aggregation status, analysis, antimatter, apparatus, atmosphere, atom, bacteria, Big Bang, biodiversity, bioethics and 90 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Biology
malacological, cladistic, phenetic, phylogenetic, taxonomy, bathypelagic, superfamily, superorder, infraorder, binomen, binominal, quorum sensing and 199 more...
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vocab set 5
accessible, acute, appreciate, arid, biosphere, compose, compression, distill, document, expeditious, innovative, obstacle and 8 more...
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