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ecosystem

noun
/ˈiːkəʊˌsɪstəm/UK/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/US

Etymology

From eco- + system. Coined by English botanist Arthur Tansley in 1935 in a paper titled The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts in the journal Ecology.

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻
  2. derived from σύστημα
  3. borrowed from systēma
  4. borrowed from sisteme
  5. prefixed as ecosystem — “eco + system”

Definitions

  1. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.

  2. The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their…

    The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.

  3. A network of interconnected people, organizations, products or services that resembles a…

    A network of interconnected people, organizations, products or services that resembles a natural ecosystem due to the complex interdependencies.

    • The company’s ecosystem mainly comprises its supply chain, customers, end consumers and competitors.
    • It [The Kashmir Files] is being described by the leftist “liberal” ecosystem as a movie that peddles bigotry against Muslims.
    • There is a certain duality in how the Hindutva ecosystem is pushing the anti-hijab discourse into the mainstream.

The neighborhood

Derived

agroecosystem, ecosystem engineer, ecosystemic, geoecosystem, macroecosystem, mesoecosystem, metaecosystem, microecosystem, palaeoecosystem, paleoecosystem, technoecosystem

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ecosystem. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ecosystem. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at ecosystem

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA