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  2. Survival - Wikipedia

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    Survival or survivorship, the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions that might ...

  3. Changes to Old English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Burbot' first occurred in English around 1475. Its modern descendant, 'eelpout', is occasionally used for the burbot, although it has come to define a different animal. cāwelwyrm: 'caterpillar' (see lēafwyrm). culfre: 'dove', 'pigeon' has survived dialectally as 'culver', which the AHD believes comes from Vulgar Latin colombula. [1]

  4. Survivability - Wikipedia

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    Survivability denotes the ability of a ship and its on-board systems to remain functional and continue designated mission in a man-made hostile environment. [5] The naval vessels are designed to operate in a man-made hostile environment, and therefore the survivability is a vital feature required from them.

  5. Survivalism - Wikipedia

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    Survivalism is a social movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists, doomsday preppers or preppers [1] [2]) who proactively prepare for emergencies, such as natural disasters, and other disasters causing disruption to social order (that is, civil disorder) caused by political or economic crises.

  6. Survival analysis - Wikipedia

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    Survival analysis is a branch of statistics for analyzing the expected duration of time until one ... Synonyms for hazard function in different fields include ...

  7. Self-preservation - Wikipedia

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    Self-preservation is a behavior or set of behaviors that ensures the survival of an organism. [1] It is thought to be universal among all living organisms. For sentient organisms, pain and fear are integral parts of this mechanism.

  8. Glossary of invasion biology terms - Wikipedia

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    Generally, this term refers to a subset of plants or animals that are introduced to an area, survive, and reproduce, and expand beyond the original area of introduction. This is the biological definition. Practical definitions add that they cause harm economically or environmentally within the new area of introduction.

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...