nomadic

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The typical hunter / gatherer nomadic or semi - nomadic band consists of about 50 people.

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  1. Wandering; roving; leading the life of a nomad: specifically applied to pastoral tribes that have no fixed abode, but wander about from place to place according to the state of the pasturage. The Nomadic races, who wander with their herds and flocks over vast plains. W. B. Carpenter, Prin. of Physiol. (1853), § 1040.
  2. Figuratively, wandering; changeable; unsettled. The American is nomadic in religion, in ideas, in morals, and leaves his faith and opinions with as much indifference as the house in which he was born. Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 97.

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  • The tribes here are nomadic, and my feeling is that they must be returning to this area after some time away, probably stocking up with meat on the high plains below the glacier before moving south as the winter darkness rolls in. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
  • Part Seven finds him living the nomadic, almost pre-rational existence of these outcasts, before he finds his life endangered in a pogrom. —  Asimov's SF, July 2006
  • That is, that the conflict in Darfur involves a conflict between settled pastoralists on one hand and nomadic or semi-nomadic herders on the other, in an unfortunately rather zero-sum conflict over land, water, forage, etc. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Today, about 60\% of all Somalis are nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists who raise cattle, camels, sheep, and goats.
  • This group of hackers seek to push the limits of wearable, nomadic, and wireless computing by using exisiting and custom built open source software with donated hardware. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
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  1. from Greek νομαδικός, belonging to pasturage or to the life of a herdsman, pastoral, from νομάς (νομαδ-), nomad: see nomad.
 

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