Metabolism

Definitions

1. A post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.
2. The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
   countable, uncountable
3. The rate at which these processes occur for a given organism
   broadly, countable, uncountable
4. The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
   broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The metabolisms of aerobic bacteria require⟳ oxygen”

“Small animals have⟳ a much higher metabolism than large animals because they lose⟳ more body heat”

“The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]”

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