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  2. Compulsive decluttering - Wikipedia

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    It is the opposite of compulsive hoarding. Compulsive decluttering is a type of disorder that is classified within a broad name, obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. Compulsive decluttering is the act of throwing items, or clutter, away, or getting rid of them in an attempt to "clean up" what one with the disorder may think is cluttered.

  3. Homeostasis - Wikipedia

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    Process control systems in a chemical plant or oil refinery maintain fluid levels, pressures, temperature, chemical composition, etc. by controlling heaters, pumps and valves. [ 90 ] The centrifugal governor of a steam engine , as designed by James Watt in 1788, reduces the throttle valve in response to increases in the engine speed, or opens ...

  4. List of materials properties - Wikipedia

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    A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, thereby aiding in materials selection.

  5. Entropy (order and disorder) - Wikipedia

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    The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy. Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have all somehow managed to assemble themselves."

  6. Absence of good - Wikipedia

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    We might urge that evil consists in existence, and good in non-existence; that therefore the sum-total of existence is the worst thing there is, and that only non-existence is good. Indeed, Buddhism does seem to maintain some such view. It is plain that this view is false; but logically it is no more absurd than its opposite. [6]

  7. Status quo - Wikipedia

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    For example: "The countries are now trying to maintain the status quo with regard to their nuclear arsenals." To maintain the status quo is to keep things the way they presently are. The related phrase status quo ante , literally 'the status before', refers to the state of affairs that existed previously.

  8. ‘Woke’ is the opposite of whiteness - AOL

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    The post ‘Woke’ is the opposite of whiteness appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: The people who co-opted, redefined and weaponized the 80-year-old Black expression have finally settled on a ...

  9. Endotherm - Wikipedia

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    An endotherm (from Greek ἔνδον endon "within" and θέρμη thermē "heat") is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favorable temperature, largely by the use of heat released by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat.