surrounding environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsurroundingandenvironment
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surrounding
adjective[before noun]
uk/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/us/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/
that is everywhere ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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Through a balance between inheritance and genetic variation, groups of self-replicating entities, or organisms, successively adapt to theirsurroundingenvironmentthrough self-replication with variance.
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Shipping certainly opened up new worlds, but at the same time, it unsettled the relationship of humans as sensory beings to theirsurroundingenvironment.
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One of the characterizing features of an agent is its ability to sense and perceive thesurroundingenvironment.
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We simply maintain that people and theirsurroundingenvironmentmutually affect one another.
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Why do individuals' participatory tendencies tend to reflect those of theirsurroundingenvironment?
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They also specify the layout of the large-scalesurroundingenvironmentitself, together with the perceiver's position within that environment.
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Thus, the maladaptive patterns of behavioral and emotional self-regulation, and reactivity to the demands of thesurroundingenvironment, become more entrenched.
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Moreover, they can coordinate their attention to a communicative partner with their attention to an object of thesurroundingenvironment.
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Insects and crustaceans employ whiskers and antennae as a place to position their exteroceptors outside their tough exoskeletons so that they can sense thesurroundingenvironment.
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This will depend on a number of factors related to the object of the action, thesurroundingenvironment, and the internal state of the actor.
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Places provide a context for everyday action and a means for identification with thesurroundingenvironment.
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At the node, the axolemma is relatively exposed to thesurroundingenvironment.
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The spatial layout of thesurroundingenvironmentprovides, of course, an important reference frame.
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Geography and history were taught with a focus on thesurroundingenvironment: first the ward, then the asylum, and finally a broader outlook.
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It tries to reconstruct itssurroundingenvironmentto remove false detections.
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The rational analysis of cognition shows how apparent limitations actually serve adaptive functions, due to the characteristic of thesurroundingenvironment.
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These findings suggest that children's vocalization and verbalization patterns can be affected by thesurroundingenvironment.
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It was argued that features from thesurroundingenvironmentspread to underlyingly toneless syllables and featureless vowels.
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The aim is to improve the mobile robot autonomy by enhancing its capability of localization with respect to thesurroundingenvironment.
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