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Meaning of organic in English

organic
adjective
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/ɔːˈɡæn.ɪk/ us
/ɔːrˈɡæn.ɪk/

organic adjective (OF FOOD PRODUCTION)

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not using artificial chemicals in the growing of plants and animals for food and other products:
organic food/fruit/farms/farmers
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organic adjective (OF LIVING THINGS)

being or coming from living plants and animals:
A quarter of the contents of an average family's dustbin is organic matter.
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inorganic
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(of a disease or illness) producing a physical change in the structure of an organ or part of the body
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organic adjective (OF CHANGES)

happening or developing naturally over time, without being forced or planned by anyone:
Our policies are organic. They change as situations change.
His television career was an organic development from the endless sketches he used to enact with his best friend from school.
business   specialized
If a company experiences organic growth, it develops its own business instead of buying other companies:
Our future development will be achieved by organic growth rather than acquisitions of other companies.
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organic adjective (IN CHEMISTRY)

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(of a chemical substance) containing carbon:
Organic chemicals are used in the manufacture of plastics, fibres, solvents and paints.
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organically
(Definition of organic from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

organic | American Dictionary

organic
adjective
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/ɔrˈɡæn·ɪk/

organic adjective (LIVING)

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[ not gradable ]
consisting of or relating to living plants and animals, or the substances of which they are made
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Organic also means relating to, or belonging to a group of substances containing the chemical element carbon.

organic adjective (NO CHEMICALS)

not using artificial chemicals in the production of plants and animals for food:
organic fruits and vegetables
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organic | Business English

organic
adjective
uk
/ɔːˈɡænɪk/ us
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ENVIRONMENT
relating to growing food or other products without using artificial chemicals:
Are these carrots organic?
organic food/produce/products
The baby clothes were made of 100% organic cotton.
organic farming/agriculture/gardening
organic farmers/growers
MANAGEMENT, WORKPLACE
relating to the growth in a company, etc. that is achieved without buying other companies:
All this planned expansion will be organic, not achieved through acquisitions.

organically

adverb
organically reared cattle
The Group has grown organically this year.
(Definition of organic from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of organic

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In addition, the channel-levee system affords potential confining and sorting mechanisms for the different grain-sizes of clastic sediments and organics.
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Microwells are small-diameter, stainless-steel wells constructed with fine-slotted screens capable of preventing passage of mineral silt and organics.
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Sinter on the pool edge has numerous absorptions consistent with incorporated organics.
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The solutions reach concentrations of 3n8 mol\l electrolytes and about 0n1 mol\l organics.
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No organics are detected using scan mode (10-100 m\e) mass spectrometry.
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Thus, the required aqueous environment for this model, containing high concentrations of organics and clay particles, is now established to occur in comets.
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Airborne organics are expected to be incorporated into the snow and ice layers, with deep accumulations over an extensive period of time.
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Both interstellar and cometary ices are processed by several energy sources to generate a variety of molecules, some of which are likely complex organics.
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We think that the concentration of organics in desert soils can be used as a proxy for habitability.
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Sixty-one percent of respondents reported that efforts in organics would increase at their institution in the next 5 years.
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Her analysis raises a question: has organics 'conventionalized' or was it always, in a sense, 'conventional'?
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The recessed surface in the sample trays will be deep in order to simulate the effects of the various processes on organics according to their depth in the soil analogues.
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Who buys organics, who doesn't, and why?
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The composite silt layer comprised 0.3 m (1 ft) of sandy-silt, underlain with thin lenses of organics and broken silty-clay (<2.5 cm or 1 in thick), with uniform silt below.
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The package includes instruments to study sample mineralogy (composition, macroscopic and microscopic structural and textural features), organics (elemental, molecular), oxidation state and petrology (major and minor element composition).
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無化學品, 有機的，不使用化肥的, 活的…
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无化学品, 有机的，不使用化肥的, 活的…
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ecológico, orgánico, orgánico/ca [masculine-feminine…
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有機栽培の, 有機農法（ゆうきのうほう）の, 有機的（ゆうきてき）な…
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suni kimyasallar kullanmayan, organik, doğal…
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தாவரங்கள் மற்றும் விலங்குகளை வளர்ப்பதில் செயற்கை இரசாயனங்களை உணவு மற்றும் பிற பொருட்களின் பயன்படுத்தாமல் இருத்தல்…
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органічний, натуральний, вирощений без хімічних добрив…
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натуральный, выращенный без применения химических удобрений, органический…
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organický, přírodní…
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thuộc cơ quan, (y học) hữu cơ, thuộc hữu cơ…
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