Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An ecological community together with its environment, functioning as a unit.
Wiktionary
- n. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
- n. The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
- n. business, marketing A set of interconnected products and services.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
Examples
“In fact, the term ecosystem refers to a self-organizing and self-regulating interaction of independent organisms; it is not a checklist of the local flora and fauna.”
“Ongoing research projects include: evaluating the ‘insurance value’ of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem services; creating a framework for understanding how ecosystem structure, function and process relate to the literature’s use of the term ecosystem services; global scale mapping and valuation of ecosystem services using GIS land cover maps and environmental economic valuation techniques.”
“But the FCC said last year that a "healthy broadband ecosystem" is only possible if other devices can do the same thing.”
Media Morning: Will the FCC get tough or play nice with broadband providers?
“University of South Florida's Ernst Peebles said the oil on the floor "is undermining the ecosystem from the bottom up.”
The Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Spill 6 Month Anniversary: A Look At The Health Of The Ocean
“If Europeans were whales, biologists would be alarmed that their ecosystem is not healthy.”
The Health Care Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“These days the Newfoundland ecosystem is being altered by over browsing from the more than 750,000 moose that call the Rock home.”
“The first step to recovery of the Gulf marine ecosystem is to identify all sources of past, present and future environmental degradation, including fully understanding the long-term impacts of the BP oil disaster.”
The Huffington Post: Rocky Kistner: Feeling Abandoned, Gulf Coast Residents Issue A Call To Arms
“For all the talk about a chronic shortage of exits for venture-backed companies, one segment of the venture capital technology ecosystem is poised to go from "hot" to "hotter": Cyber-security.”
The Huffington Post: Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing
“The closed ecosystem is getting to me more and more.”
The Huffington Post: Ben Huh Stars As A Lolcat, Talks Twitter, Memes, And Going Viral (PICTURE)
“For all the talk about a chronic shortage of exits for venture-backed companies, one segment of the venture capital technology ecosystem is poised to go from "hot" to "hotter".”
The Huffington Post: Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ecosystem’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 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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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 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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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 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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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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barfi
turpentine, cognate, connotation, denotation, bias, unflinching, emptive, mob, amnesty, modestly, spear, incline and 150 more...
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eco-
relating to ecology
ecosystem, eco-terrorism, ecology, ecological, eco-friendly, economics
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Global Issues Vocabulary
Current vocabulary words for the 8th grade's Global Issues unit.
global warming, degradation, infectious, illiteracy, depletion, ecosystem, nation-state, self-serving, peacekeeping, poverty, conflict, prevention and 13 more...
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